PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sensory Memory, Tape Recorder, Staccato

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 101
• Professor: Christopher Niemic

Document Summary

An information-processing model: what is memory, learning that has persisted over time - a process by which info is stored in our brains and retrieve from our brains, some metaphors used for memory. Today, mind likened to a computer, making memory an information- processing system: memory as information processing, three steps: encoding, storage, retrieval. Encoding - process by which we get info into our brains. Serial position effect: tend to recall best last and first items in list: recency effect - immediately after learning, remember last items best, primacy effect - after period of time, recall first info best. About for most - about five bits of information. Explanation 1 - participants can only register that much info in single glance. Long-term memory: limitless storage - for info to go to ltm, elaborative rehearsal, encoding, elaborative rehearsal - think about info in more meaningful way, make connections w other ltms, storage, format of long-term memory.