PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Echoic Memory, Iconic Memory, Sensory Memory

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Anneke Olthof

Document Summary

Information picked up by our senses and enters sensory memory: briefly holds sensory information. Caused by two different mechanisms: resources, leaving fewer resources to remember later, incoming information memories that have not yet made it into ltm. Use imagery and chunking to increase your short-term memory! The biology of memory: the brain is not like a hard drive, memories are not in isolated files, the(cid:455)(cid:859)re i(cid:374) o(cid:448)erlappi(cid:374)g (cid:374)eural networks, the storage capacity does not get full. 6: state-dependent memory, ability to retrieve is better when internal state at retrieval matches that at encoding, mood-dependent learning, tend to recall information or events congruent with current mood. Emotional memories: emotional items are more likely to be retained in memory, emotions trigger an increase in stress hormones, stress hormones trigger the amygdala, the amygdala then: Forgetting and mnemonics: the forgetting curve, rapid loss of memory at first, then a more gradual decline.