PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Echoic Memory, Sensory Memory, Cognitive Revolution
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The cognitive revolution of psychology, we are meaning making creatures. When talking about memory you are activating patterns in the brain to activate memory. Perception is activating pathways in the brain the lead to perception. When you are remembering a stroll down the beach, the same neurons are firing that were firing when you actually walked down the beach. Atkinson model is very useful to guide how we understand memory. They basically have different stirage systems that serve different functions. They are functional for data storage over different time scales. When going from short term to long term memory, you are talking about 2 different time scales. Sensory memory acts over a very quick time scale. Sensory memory system processes information very fast, it captures a moment in time and preserves it for a very short amount of time. What we store in our biology is what we pay attention to.
