PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Semantic Memory, Sensory Memory, Echoic Memory

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

Document Summary

H. m was 27 years old in 1953 when he had most of his hippocampus and surrounding brain tissue removed. Operation was successful, but he could no longer form new memories. H. m. was able to learn and perform new tasks, even with no memory of the task: example: improves on mirror-trace task over trials. Memory: processes that allow us to record and retrieve experiences and information. The atkinson-shiffrin model of memory: the first model of memory, assumes memory is a multistage process in which information flows along three separate and interacting memory stores. 27/10/2015 sensory memory: information picked up by our senses and enters sensory memory. Sensory memory is the initial information processor selects what details to pay attention to sends this information on to stm for rehearsal and further processing: studied by sperling (1960) iconic memory second seconds. Form of memory code does not necessarily correspond to form of original stimulus. Magical number 7, +/- 2 (miller, 1956)