Cognitive Psychology
Study of thinking processes
Based on computer metaphor i.e. we try to understand the mind by
comparing it to a computer:
Input Processing Output
Storage
,WHAT IS MEMORY?
LEARNING is the ACQUISITION OF
KNOWLEDGE
MEMORY is the STORAGE OF AN INTERNAL
REPRESENTATION OF THAT KNOWLEDGE
, MULTI - STORE MODEL OF
MEMORY
Richard Atkinson & Richard Shiffrin (1968) formulated a
STRUCTURE for memory.
THREE TYPES of memory store:
SENSORY REGISTER
SHORT TERM MEMORY (STM)
LONG TERM MEMORY (LTM)