PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Working Memory, Sensory System, Long-Term Memory

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4 Aug 2012
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All of our sensory system has a buffer that holds information a little longer to allow us to switch between the systems and overlap sensory experiences. Working memory is the beginning of real memory system, but is not the real system. The more you can hold in your working memory the more successful you are (they are also seen as more intelligent). For mute people, they use their finger (which they use for signal) to repeat the information, like we do in our heads. If you let the person retell immediately, they can get about 90% right, but after some time gap the percentage drops. Slide 18: one possibility- decay: where the information just dissipates. However, this one was debated, because nothing decays. Conveyor/bouncer notion- when something new comes into the mind, the other one get pushed out. That"s because there"s a limited space in which the information is held.

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