PSY 12000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Language Development, Predictive Validity, Kanzi
16 Aug 2018
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Memory: the capacity to perserve and recover information. Storage: how memories are kept over time. Retrieval: how memories are recovered and translated into performance. Exact replica of an environmental message which usually lasts for a second or less". We keep icons or visual images stored for extremely short periods of time. A system we use to temporarily store, think about, reason w information. We use it to manipulate the information that is coming into our brain at any given time. Also called working memory : a mental workspace. We tend to recode (translate) information into inner speech. Mistakes made during short term recall tend to sound like, but not look like, the correct items. Ex. might mistake b for a v. We can also code info visually using images. Judgements made based on mental images are similar to those based on actual pictures. Can prolong short term memories indefinitely through rehearsal (internal repetition) Without rehearsal, memories disappear after 1-2 seconds.
