PSYC 323 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sketchpad, Railways Act 1921, Spatial Memory
17 Sep 2016
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Attention seemed to be necessary for information to be stored in memory. Can remember statistical messages but not the semantic content or specific details. We have the ability to control our perceptual system and select what we want to pay attention to. Input sensory memory working/stmemory < -- > long-term memory. 3 memory stores that differ in fnction, capacity and duration. Control processes control movement of information within and between memory stores. Holds information long enough to be processd for basic physical characteristics (colour etc) Capacity is large, can hold many items at once. Duration is very brief retention of images: 0. 3 seconds for visual info, 2 seconds for auditory info. We think of all that information in its entirety more than we do for visual information, hence auditory can be stored for a longer period of time. Divided into 2 subtypes: iconic memory: visual information. Visual or iconic memory was discovered by sperling in.
