PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Echoic Memory, Sketchpad, Iconic Memory
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The cognitive revolution in psych we are meaning making creatures! Perceiving activating patterns in the brain that represent somehow the info that you"re perceiving. The classical model shiffrin & atkinson. Basically have different storage systems that have different functions. You can"t sit here and consciously remember everything that comes across your experience. Some of that information will go through that encoding process, and will be stored in the long-term memory. A memory system that momentarily preserves extremely accurate representations of sensory information information that is not quickly passed to short-term memory is gone forever. Challenge of being a student how to make better use of your memory system. Sperling memory example looking at how people could report their memory of stimuli in the lab. Show a 3x3 grid in the lab for a 20th of a second. They would have memory for a few digits and then start running out of steam.
