PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Shooting Of Amadou Diallo, Long-Term Memory, Echoic Memory
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Cognitive revolution in psychology we are meaning making creatures. Sensory memory, fast time scale (unattended info is lost: process info really fast, captures moment and preserves it for short amount of time. Anything you pay attention to, majority of what you store; short term memory system stores data for longer amount of time. Some of the information has gone through encoding process and goes to long term memory (some info may be lost over time) = memory system momentarily preserves extremely accurate representations of sensory information. Information that is not quickly passed to short-term memory is gone forever. Sperling memory example: how people could report memory of stimuli in lab, flash object on screen for a second and then immediately asked what they said, process of saying what they saw takes time. Iconic memory demonstrated by sperling, exposure is1/20 of a second, lasts 1/3 second) Echoic memory (lasts about 2 seconds, auditory)
