PSY 105 Lecture 6: CHAPTER 6 Memory
4 Aug 2016
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Accurately but briefly registers sensory information before it fades or moves into short-term memory includes two subsystems for. Iconic: a fast-decaying store of visual information: echoic: a fast-decaying store of auditory information. Short-term memory (stm): a place where information is kept for a few seconds but less than a minute. Rehearsal: the process of keeping information in short term memory by mentally repeating it. Capacity of stm: george miller believed the capacity of stm was 7, plus or minus 2, chunking: combining small pieces of information into larger clusters or chunks that are more easily held in short term memory. Allows more information to be managed in stm. Long-term memory (ltm): information acquired during an experience that guides present thought and action there are multiple forms that differ in the brain structures supporting them the various forms fall into two general categories explicit and implicit.
