PSYCH 1F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hermann Ebbinghaus, Interference Theory, Sensory Memory
2 Apr 2018
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Encoding how information initially enters into memory; highly dependent on attention. Storage how the record of memory is maintained over time; can be modified. Retrieval recovering stored information; dependent on retrieval cues (information that triggers memory). Transient maintenance of perceptual and physical information from the recent past; not limited by attention. Iconic memory visual information; represented by the visual system. Echoic memory auditory information; represented by the auditory system. Sensory memory decays at an extremely fast rate. Unrehearsed selected information stays in stm for ~20 s; rehearsed (repeated) information stays for longer. Chunking information is organized into sets of familiar groups of items; increases stm. Central exclusive coordinates and manipulates information that is maintained in the buffers; allows for working memory to be more flexible than short-term memory. Once information is transferred from stm into ltm, new information is organized according to prior knowledge. Concepts that are more closely related are more directly connected.
