PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sensory Memory, Memory Span, Psen2

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Sheri Thibeau

Document Summary

The process involved in retaining, retrieving, and using information about stimuli, images, events, ideas, and skills after the original information is no longer present. Can be viewed as a processing system that encodes, stores, and retrieves information. Encoding: translating information into a neural code so that it can be stored for later use. Storage: the process by which information is retained over time. Retrieval: pulling information back out of your mind for use. Sensory memory subsystems of sensory memory; initial information processors briefly holds sensory information. Measuring capacity and duration of iconic sensory register. Array of letters flashed quickly on a screen. Participants asked to report as many as possible. Short-term memory temporarily stores and processes a limited amount of information in consciousness. Limited capacity (7 plus or minus 2 bits ) Limited duration (20-sec or so without a control process) Given lists of words e. g. , apple, simple, burden .