PSYO 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Episodic Memory, Sensory Memory, Sensory System
22 Dec 2017
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Language and thought (part 2) and memory (part 1: how to improve your problem solving, draw inferences, develop sub goals, work backwards, search for contradictions, search for relations among problems, find a different way to represent problem. Memory: three-stage model of memory, psychologists divided memory into 3 components: sensory, short-term, long term. Infer personal knew all the letters because when given a tone, they could report the entire row: best explanation: sensory memory much bigger than we thought but bias made us underestimate it. Initially thought to be 7 items; came from a memory specialist that studied the capacity of short-ter(cid:373) (cid:373)e(cid:373)ory, wrote the arti(cid:272)le (cid:862)the magi(cid:272) nu(cid:373)(cid:271)er 7 plus/(cid:373)i(cid:374)us. 2(cid:863), (cid:374)o o(cid:374)e looked at his resear(cid:272)h: long-term memory, role of context is important, 2 components, explicit or declarative memory. How to do something (ex. tie shoelaces or ride a bicycle: evidence that they are distinct: (get rid of one and keep the other)
