Cognitive Psychology: Connecting Mind, Research and Everyday Experience, 3rd Edition

Studying Memory • 119

Sensory STM LTM

All info on screen

enters sensory

memory.

Sensory STM LTM

Focus on 555-5100.

It enters STM.

Sensory LTM

Rehearse the number

to keep it in STM while

making the phone call.

Sensory STM LTM

Storage

Awareness

Store number in LTM.

Sensory STM LTM

Retrieve number from LTM.

It goes back to STM and is

remembered.

STM

Remember number

to make call

Remember number

to make call again

Retrieval

Rehearsal

Rehearsing

Memorizing

Retrieval

(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)

555-5100

555-5100

555-5100

555-5100

● FIGURE 5.3 What happens in diff erent parts of Rachel’s memory as she is (a and b)

looking up the phone number, (c) calling the pizza shop, and (d) memorizing the

number. A few days later, (e) she retrieves the number from long-term memory to

order pizza again. The parts of the modal model that are outlined in red indicate which

processes are activated for each action that Rachel takes.

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