PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Habituation, Explicit Memory, Implicit Memory
31 Jan 2017
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Memory: the retention of information of information over time. Memory preview: brain is a powerful computer with separate types of memory in different brain structures. The computer metaphor of the mind: essential, a computer, codes (i. e. changes) information, stores information, uses information, and produces an output (retrieves info) Three systems of memory: sensory, short-term, and long-term memory, differ in terms of span and duration, moves from sensory to stm to ltm and then back to stm. Sensory memory (sm): high capacity, very brief, has impact on sensory mechanism, attention is important * Each sense : has its own form of sensory memory, vision is called iconic memory, lasts about one second, and is gone. Simply repeating the stimuli in the same form: elaborative rehearsal. Links stimuli to each other in a meaningful way. Elaborative is usually more effective, consistent with levels of processing models. Three levels: visual, phonological (sound-related) and sematic (meaning- relating)
