PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Memory Span
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Memory: capacity of the ns to acquire and retain usable skills and knowledge, allowing living organisms to benefit from experience. H. m: unable to form long-term memories, able to remember everything before the surgery, can learn motor tasks but be unaware of it. Only able to recall within 1/3 second, after which sensory-memory trace faded and was no longer accessible. Iconic memory: visual sensory memory (persists for one-third of a second) Through these two types of memories, we see the world as a continuous stream. Because of interference from previous items in stm some info may be lost over time relatively permanent storage of info. Long-term memory o o: nearly limitless o is distinct from stm memory in 2 ways: duration and capacity. Stm limited to about 7 items (plus or minus 2, george miller) called memory span. Efficiency of chucking depends on long-term memory system.
