PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Implicit Memory, Prospective Memory, Sensory Memory

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

Document Summary

Auditory attention allows for selective listening: we can attend to more than one message at a time, but not well. Selective attention can operate at multiple stages of processing: missing something in our optical field (change blindness) Sensory memory is brief: memories are maintained long enough to ensure a continuous sensory experience. Working memory is active: chunking reduces information into units that are easier to remember. Long-term memory is relatively permanent: meaningful memories are stored in network-like structures. Explicit memory involves conscious effort include personal events. Implicit memory occurs without deliberate effort learning to do things automatically. Prospective memory is remembering to do something. Long-term storage is based on meaning: encoding info in more meaningful ways. Schemas provide an organizational framework: aid in the organization of memories. Information is stored in association networks formed by nodes of info, linked together. Retrieval cues provide access to long-term storage: reduced attention, reduced working memory capability.