PSY270H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Railways Act 1921, High Top, Iconic Memory
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Memory researchers are concerned with the type of things our memory can hold (structure/code) Memory researchers are concerned with the limiting factors of memory: capacity and duration. Memory researchers are concerned with the processes that allow information to enter and exit memory. Classic structural , serial (info passes from one to next), modular. There are 3 memory stores ( modes) : Control process: keep active within a store or move info along the three stores. A limited capacity store that holds basic sensory information for a very limited amount of time. We have a different store for each of our senses. Attention is the process that helps pass items in sensory store on to short-term memory. Presented participants with letter very quickly and took them away. When asked to remember as many letters as they can (whole report), people can only remember 3-4 items. Cold report: asked to report the whole thing.
