Human Memory — Psychology STD 11 Humanities — Question
CBSE BoardEnglish MediumSTD 11 HumanitiesPsychologyHuman Memory3 Marks
Question
How does information travel from one store to another?
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Answer
Control processes monitor the flow of information through various memory stores.
Only that information which is attended to enter the STM.
The STM then sets into motion another control process of maintenance rehearsal to retain the information for as much time as required. These kind of rehearsals simply maintain information through repetition and when such repetitions discontinue, the information is lost.
Another control process, which operates in STM to expand its capacity, is Chunking. Through chunking it is possible to expand the capacity of STM which is otherwise 7 + 2.
From the STM, information enters the long-term memory through elaborative rehearsals. This rehearsal attempts to connect the 'to be retained information' to the already existing information in long-term memory.
In elaborative rehearsals one attempts to analyse the information in term of various associations it arouses. It involves organisation of the incoming information in as many ways as possible. You can expand the information in some kind of logical framework, link it to similar memories or else can create a mental image.
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