PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Echoic Memory, Short-Term Memory, Iconic Memory
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Formation of memories is going to depend on your expectations. Spotlight of attention; what doesn"t shine on stays in the dark, you have smaller chance of remembering things and most of it is lost. Keeping a smaller subset of info so that brain focuses on that while everything else is lost. Sensory memory: a memory system that momentarily preserves extremely accurate images of sensory info. Info that is not quickly passed to short term memory is gone forever. In lab, had people look at specific spots on screen and would show something for a small amount of time and then ask questions about it. Iconic memory was demonstrated in sperlings classic experiment (exposure= 1/20 of a second) and lasts about 1/3 second: echoic memory (last two seconds sure i was listening, you said xxx) Iconic and echoic memory systems may allow us to experience the world as a continuous stream.
