PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cognitive Psychology, George Sperling, Long-Term Memory
19 Mar 2017
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It is the way in which we record the past and later refer it so that it may affect the present. Memory involves more than taking information in and storing it in some mental compartment. How is info pulled back out of memory. I(cid:374)fo(cid:396)(cid:373)atio(cid:374) sto(cid:396)age is (cid:374)ot e(cid:374)ough to gua(cid:396)a(cid:374)tee that (cid:455)ou"ll (cid:396)e(cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)e(cid:396) so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g. How people search memory and why some retrieval strategies are more effective than others. Attention involves focussing awareness on a narrowed range of stimuli or events. Attention i linked to a filter that screens out stimuli while allowing a few to pass through into conscious awareness. Attention involves late selection, based on the meaning of the input. Example: if you are having a convo with someone, and other people are having a different convo in the background. Even if you are not paying attention to their convo, you will notice if you hear your name.
