PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7.1: Biopsychosocial Model, Retrograde Amnesia, Motor Learning
22 Mar 2017
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Memory is a collection of several systems that store information in different forms for differing amounts of time. Control processes shift information from one memory store to another. Holds perceptual information for a brief amount of time: amount of time depends on what sense was used. Iconic memory is from the visual sense (seeing: held for half a second. Echoic memory is from the auditory sense (hearing: held for about 5 seconds. Attention is the key to remembering any sensory information being processed: change blindness is when any change in a situation will fade from sensory memory and only the main part will be passed to short-term memory. Short-term memory has limited capacity and duration (about 30 to 60seconds) Chunking is organizing information into smaller clusters based on prior knowledge making new information easier to retain: breaks large amounts of information into groups so that it can fit in our short-term memory.
