Human Memory — Psychology STD 11 Humanities — Question

Control process:

1. It is proposed by Atkinson and Shiffrin.
2. It functions to monitor the flow of information through various memory stores.
3. Control processes have three kinds.

They are following:

1. Selective attention: That information which is attended to enter the STM from sensory registers. It decides what will travel from sensory registers to STM.
2. Maintenance rehearsal: This kind of rehearsal simply maintains information through repetition and when such repetitions discontinue, the information is lost.
3. Chunking: Through chunking it is possible to expand the capacity of STM which is otherwise T + 2.

e.g. It you are told to remember a sting of digits as 1947, 1949, 2004. You may create the chunks as 1947, 1949, 2004 and remember them as the year when India became independent, the year when the Indian constitution was adopted and the year when the tsunami hit the coastal regions of India and South East Asian countries.