Memory
Memory
Fahria Karim
Lecturer
NSU
What is Memory?
• The specific amount of info that can be held in STM has been identified as
seven items or ‘Chunks’
• A chunk is a group of familiar stimuli stored as a single unit in STM
• Example?
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Memory
have no lasting recall of new info received after the
damage, although people and events stored in memory
before the injury remain intact
(LTM) • The info that was encoded and stored before injury can
be recalled because of LTM, and STM after the injury
appears to be operational because new materials can
be recalled for a very brief period
• From this, we can see that there are two distinct types
of memory-one for short-term and one for long-term
storage
Long-Term
Memory Modules