Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Clive Wearing, Working Memory, Spreading Activation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Hold information for a fraction of a second. Trace fades quickly attend to the dot on the screen: visual icon, auditory echo. Typically have a shelf life of 20 seconds. Note: rapidly lost unless we actively do something with it, limited in capacity: Decay material gets old fades away over time, and after a while, it"s not going to be there anymore. Interference new material pushes old material out. Jenkind & dallenbach (1924): listing a list of 48 words, sit in a lab until you can memorize them all, then test people hours later depending on the hour interval. Some people went to sleep and others went to sleep sleep vs. Those who were awake 50% gone by 1 hour and almost all gone by 8 hours. You should sleep if you"re studying: acoustic coding: Unlimited capacity: nobody has found the capacity limit of ltm.