PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Encoding Specificity Principle, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Fugue State

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Week six psyc 1000 introduction to psychology october 13th. Atkinson-shiffrin model reviewed what psychologists knew about memory at that time and constructed the memory model. Sensory memory memory store that accurately holds perceptual information for a time. Short-term memory memory store with limited capacity and duration. Chunking organizing smaller units of information into larger, more meaningful units. Long-term memory holds information for extended periods of time, if not permanently. Rehearsal repeating information until you do not need to remember it anymore. Working memory a model of short-term remembering that includes a combination of memory components that can temporarily store small amounts of information for a time. Phonological loop is known as a storage component of working memory that relies on rehearsal and that stores information as sounds or an auditory code. Visuospatial sketchpad is known as a storage component of working memory that maintains visual images and spatial layouts in a visuospatial code.