PSY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sensory Memory, Memory Span, Endel Tulving

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 102
• Professor: Stephen Want

Document Summary

Peoples personalities change over time as well as their physical self. Instead of unchanging essense , we focus on memory (entity that continues to have this identity of yourself. To a large extent, it is your memory that tells you who you are. Think about the things that make you, you (unique identity) They are your relationships with others, your roles in society, the places you"ve been, and things you"ve learned and done. Stm and the speed with which information is lost from stm without it. (4) describe what has been discovered about the limited capacity of stm and explain how chunking can increase memory span. Putting up an array of 12 letters and flashed on the screen- participants could report about 4 items. However, participants reported a brief image of all the characters but they felt like they only had time to report 4 before the others faded. A post-image cue signalled which row ps should report.