PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Episodic Memory, Procedural Memory, Semantic Memory
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Top down processes structure our experiences, put a framework. We bias how we process info in a top-down way. Sensory input > sensory memory (unattended info lost) >attention> The cognitive revolution in psychology, we are meaning making creatures short-term memory (unrehearsed info lost)> long term memory (some info lost over time) Sensory memory operates in a fast time scale. Captures a moment in time and preserves it for a short time. The majority of what we remember is what we pay attention to. The short-term memory system stores data for a longer amount of time, yet holds less data than the sensory memory system. The info that has been paid attention to has been encoded and goes to the long-term memory. A memory system that momentarily preserves extremely accurate representations of sensory info. Info that is not quickly passed to short term memory is gone forever. Sperling memory example, where he shows them a 3x3 grid with numbers.
