Assignment: Three Stage Memory Model
Assignment: Three Stage Memory Model
Chapter 7 Text Assignment
Please type your name at the top of the document. Please type your answers in Red and save your completed document on your computer. Then, submit the completed assignment as per the instructions outlined on Blackboard.
1. Construct an essay describing how the Information Processing Three Stage Memory Model explains how you are able to hear a lecture in class, process the information, and retain it in your memory, and then access the information for an exam. You must include each of the following terms in your essay:
Sensory Memory Iconic Memory Echoic Memory
Selective Attention Encoding Decay
Duration Capacity Short Term Memory
Working Memory Visual Spatial Sketchpad Central Executive
Phonological Loop Maintenance Rehearsal Elaborative Rehearsal
Consolidation Long Term Memory Implicit Memory
Declarative Memory Nondeclarative Memory Explicit Memory
Autobiographical Memory Procedural Memory Semantic Memory
Classical Conditioned Memory Priming Memory Episodic Memory
Retrieval Retrieval Cues Specific Cues
General Cues Recognition Recall
State Dependent Retrieval Encoding Specificity Mood Congruence
Please underline and bold each key term. Also please note that many of these terms are on the exam in an applied context. Therefore, you need to know the meaning and application of each of the terms, and the duration and capacity of each memory stage.
2. What biological factors influence your memory function?
3. What is chunking, which specific memory can it help?
4. How can the deeper level processing theory help you become a better student?
5. What is a flashbulb memory, and how does it apply to your life?
6. Explain the difference between anterograde and retrograde amnesia, and provide an example of each.
7. What are some of the main events and ages associated with higher risks of memory loss?
8. Describe Alzheimer’s Disease including the symptoms, risk factors, and biological mechanisms involved.
9. Explain Decay Theory.
10. Based on Interference theory, what is the difference between proactive and retroactive interference?
11. Explain how you personally apply massed practice and distributed practice as a student. Which approach is better supported by the research?
12. What have you learned about false memories?
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.
