PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Memory Span, Mnemonic, Working Memory

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Believe that the s-r (stimulus response) relationships are stamped in to the. Cognition is a term about thinking and mental processes. Is an offshoot, derived from the behavioural perspective. Insight: change in the organization of a problem or the sudden understanding of how to solve a problem. Sensory memory: preserves information in its original sensory form for a short time. The sensation of the stimulus lingers briefly after the stimulus has ended. If you scan an entire room of people, all of that information on your visual would make its way to brain. When someone is talking and the last word feels like its ringing in your mind. It has a limited capacity and can hold 7 -+ pieces of info(memory span). Generally in short term memory we can hold anywhere from 5-9 pieces of information. Displacement: when your memory replaces a new piece of information for another. Maintenance rehearsal: repeating the word, nothing more than that.