PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sensory Memory, Mental Representation, Sketchpad
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Encoding: mental representation in memory based on information processing. Info is recognized but not yet stored for long term. Sensory memory: allows large amounts of info to be stored for very brief durations. Iconic memory: brief sensory memory in the visual domain. Echoic memory: brief sensory memory in the auditory domain. Immediate memory: mechanism for focusing cognitive resources on a small set of mental representations for just a few seconds. George miller: discoveres that it has a limited capacity of 7 plus or minus 2 items of info. Chunking: grouping info on the basis of similarity or some other organizing principle reduces the load on immediate memory. Long term memory: memory that is stored for minutes, hours, days, or years. Recent memory: long term memory from the recent past, such as minutes, hours, days ago. Remote memory: long term memory from the distant past such as months or years ago.
