Three Stage Model Of Memory

Many people thought memory as one thing, either they would remember things or forget about them (AUTHOR, 269, PAGE NUMBER).

I know my friend’s middle name perfectly well, and yet when asked for it a moment ago, I could not command it. Some momentary stoppage of the associated pathways in the cortex checked the attempt at recall. Many of the most serious disorders of insanity involve this kind of disconnection and disintegration among ideas; of course, much exaggerated (Angell, 1908, p 231).

Psychologists studied the case of Henry Molaison, it open doors to other dimensions in memory. When Molaison was nine, a bicyclist hit him. His brain was damaged and because of it, he suffered from epilepsy seizures. His diagnoses was anterograde amnesia.

It is the ability to store and use information” (CITATION). Memory has long-term storage, short-term storage and sensory memory; this is the three-stage model of memory. Sensory memory is the information we obtain from its sensory formed for a very brief period, usually about half a second or less (Feist & Rosenberg, 2012). “Wave your hand in front of your face. The faint trace that remains after your hand is gone, a remnant of the event just past, is visible evidence of sensory system” (Norman 1982, p. 5). When using sensory, the experiences they use is the sense of smell, taste, feel, see, and hear. Sensory memory is made up of brief traces of a sensation left by firing of neurons in the brain (AUTHOR, 272, PG NUMBER). They leave traces about 2-3 seconds. Sensation is the first step of a long-term

This stage is very important because it order to storage this information for long-terms, one has to pay close attention and not to be multitasking or the memory will not have a deep impact to where it can be stored for long period (Feist & Rosenberg, 2012). One explanation is that visual images create a richer and more detailed representation in the memory than words and therefore are more deeply encoded (Craik, 1979). There are two types of encoding processes: automatic and effortful (Feist & Rosenberg, 2012). These are as their names are implied. Automatic requires little effort or little conscious attention to the task (Feist & Rosenberg, 2012). The process is natural, and will not improve with practice. It will be stored for a couple of minutes; until it will later throughout the day, it will be harder to remember what was stored. An example of automatic is what clothes one wore the day before (Feist & Rosenberg, 2012). Episodic has to do with a similar automatic process. For example, when you want to learn more soccer moves you have to put in the effort in studying how to strike the ball, a certain way while practicing it takes work. Effortful processing encoding of information that occurs with careful attention and conscious effort (Feist & Rosenberg, 2012). Interestingly, advancing age tends to lessen recall for events and