sensory memory, retains all the visual and auditory input received for a few seconds, encoding, conversion of one or more nerve impulses into a form that can be received and held by the brain and retrieved later, short term memory, holds around 7 pieces of information for a short time (around 30 seconds), long term memory, has an unlimited capacity to hold information for a very long time, working memory model, the model within STM which allows data to be processed, completing simple cognitive tasks, displacement, replacing old information in the short term memory with new information, decay, breakdown of memory trace in the short term memory, serial position effect, when information is viewed in a sequence the first and last few pieces of information are remembered best, methods for transferring information from LTM to STM, rehearsal, organisation, elaboration, rehearsal, repeating info over an dover again to help you memorise it, organisation, information is organised into logical categories, elaboration, analysing the meaning of the item to be memoriesed and taking note of the features and properties, contextual cues, relate to the time and place when information was initially encoded into LTM

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