PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sensory Memory, Guided Imagery, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

Document Summary

Process of encoding, storage, and retrieval: sensory memory registers incoming information, allowing your brain to capture for a. Can have many different problems when we don"t remember things: information may not have been encoded properly, got lost in storage, trouble retrieving the information. Rapid decay in memory with no rehearsal. Short-term memory is limited not only in terms of the length, but also in how much we can hold there. Basic rule is that short term memory can only hold seven plus or minus two objects. We forget much of what we learn. Lecture note: retention drops drastically within the rst few days and then levels off (ebbinghaus. As rehearsal increases, relearning time decreases (ebbinghaus retention curve: repetition seems to aid memory. Ebbinghaus" basic ideas can be dramatically in uenced by different cues. Types of encoding: semantic (type of ) - approx. 90% recall: acoustic (rhymes with ) - approx.