Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Video Professor, Closed Head Injury, Natural Kind

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

3 phases: 1) encoding 2) storing 3) retrieval. Memory failure can happen throughout or between phases. Encoding - translating into a code that your brain processes into something meaningful (auditory, visual) Analogy - typing into keyboard; keystrokes - electrical code that processor understands. Storage - retaining information over time - saved for future access. Retrieval - ability to pull info - open le - memory also about pulling it out. Holds information coming through sense for a fraction of a second to several seconds. Echoic store - auditory sensory register: short-term / working. Holds information we are conscious of at any given time. Aka working memory - b/c consciously processes, codes and working on information we are focusing on. Memory codes are mental representations of information. Holds about 7 items for less than 30 seconds with rehearsal. Miller (1956): memory studies found that capacity for short term memory is 7 +/-2 (5-9 items)