PSY312H5 Lecture Notes - Eidetic Memory, Sensory Memory, Childhood Amnesia
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Not efficient to draw the peripheral information first (the side details) How does the model look like? (by atkinson-shiffren model) Model expresses how we widely express cognitive information. Incoming information: we have to sense information (sensory info). Sweet, salt, fat . why? fat= adaptive for survival: sour, bitter= not like imply poisonous, olfactory: detect chemicals in the air. Theory: comes in modules: all 5 sensory inputs are being registered at the same time: we all have perfect photographic memory. Iconic memory : includes everything! all 5 inputs are being registered but a lot of it is being filtered out its going out things filtered out= decay. What do you want to filter in? things that are meaningful things that you recognize study by sperling 1960 gave a set of 12 letters by row. Memory: the top down component between working memory and sensory register is. Info is brought to consciousness and it is worked on.
