PSY 11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sensory Memory, Frotteurism, Vaginismus
5 Apr 2016
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Topics for the second exam (tuesday march 15th, 2016) *information is never lost, you simply have trouble inding it within your brain because it gets to be an unorganized iling cabinet . Sensory theory: some believe that it shouldn"t be called sensory memory memory because it happens in the sensory organs. After the stimulus is gone you still have a 1-2 second of that stimulus. Short term memory: brief, limited in terms of the time of the storage and the amount of storage available (about 15-30 seconds and. Long term memory: unlimited in both time and amount of storage available. Episodic memory: remembering information and the entire event just as it was when you irst learned/experienced ex) your high school graduation. Semantic memory: remembering information but not the event (you can remember what the information is, just not the circumstances of when you irst learned it)
