PSYC 2240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Implicit Memory, Sensory Memory, Spaced Repetition

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2240
• Professor: J De Souza

Document Summary

Sight, sound, smell, touch, taste. info held long enough for basic physical characteristics: 0. 3 s for visual and 2 s for auditory info, selective attention to move to short term memory. Eg: visual (picture), acoustic or semantic (meaning): storing sensory memory, stm and ltm, retrieval recall, recollection, recognition, relearning, encoding: shallow encoding: structural processing (appearance) encodes physical qualities of something. Involves maintenance rehearsal, repetition to help us hold something in the stm: deep encoding: semantic processing, encoding the meaning of a word and relate it to a similar word with similar meaning. Involved elaboration rehearsal, or meaningful analysis: retrieval, recall: access info without being cued, recollection: reconstructing memory utilizing logical structures, partial memories, narratives or clues, recognition: identifying info after experiencing it again. Eg: mc questions: relearning: relearning info that has been previously learned. Playing an instrument is an example, or riding a bike: how to improve memory, chunking: you can keep 5-9 items in the stm.