PSY 2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Sensory Memory, Short-Term Memory, Representativeness Heuristic
Document Summary
Retrieval: context effects tendency to remember things better when recalling in the same context. Deja vu: sense that you"ve experienced something before. Mood-congruent memory: tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with ones current good or bad mood. Sensory memory- the senses momentarily register amazing detail. Short term memory- a few items are being noticed. Long term storage- some items are altered or lost. Retrieval from long-term memory- retrieval cues, moods and motives. Absent-mindedness: inattention to details produce encoding failure encoding failure: information never enters the memory system selective attention. Transcience: storage decay over time blocking: retrieval failure tip of the tongue phenomenon. Proactive interference: old material increases the forgetting of new material. Example: can"t remember new phone number when getting new phone. Retroactive: new materials increase forgetting of old material. Distortion problems: misattribution: confusing the source of information imagination in ation: imagining nonexistent actions and events can create false memories.
