PSYCH101 Lecture 5: Lecture 5

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Steve Spencer

Document Summary

Song: short term memory blues - chris hough. ** collect things from the media for paper. Cognitive psych, big growth in computers at this time cognitive psych - memory is a lot like an old computer (1960s) Memory was being studied before the turn of the twentieth century. Working memory - effort full process of memory. Must have shortcut and synthesize info quickly when we"re trying to remember. Effortful memory is much better then typical memory. Our memory is fragile and error prone. Need some sort of sensory input that you are trying to remember, if it"s vision it will be coded by the retina transduction of the information (sensory memory) Sensory memory - getting information into the nervous system. There is a memory for things that are relatively small and relatively short. Short term memory (working memory) - when take info and hold for a short period of time, lose it quickly.