PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Echoic Memory, Iconic Memory, Sensory Memory

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

15:07 top down structure your experience, so you assimilate to what you"re experiencing. Sensory memory: a memory system that momentarily preserves extremely accurate representations of sensory information information that is not quickly passed to the short-term memory is gone forever. = 1/20 of a second) and lasts about 1/3 of a second echoic memory (lasts about 2 seconds) ex. Blahblahblah , can recall the last sentence they said. Attention and memory: attention moves from the sensory store to short-term memory. Short-term memory (stm): a limited capacity memory system involved in the retention of information for brief periods of seconds (20-30s) 3 main systems: phonological loop visuospatial sketchpad central executive. 7 items on it, when a new item is put on the bench, another one falls off (+ or 2) 2 = someone with brain damage or cognitive defects we get better at packing items with more units ex.