PSYC 3580 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Long-Term Memory, Interference Theory, Sensory Memory

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3580
• Professor: Anne Baird

Document Summary

Sensory memory is a system that temporarily stores information from senses. Has very large capacity and records information with fairly good accuracy. A schema is a generalized, well-integrated knowledge about a situation, an event, or a person. Schemas allow people to predict what will happen in a new situation. Working memory: brief, immediate memory for limited amount of material that a person is currently processing. Part of working memory also actively coordinates ongoing mental activities. In current research, working memory is more popular than a similar but older term, short term memory. Orienting attention network is a system responsible for kind of attention required for visual search, in which a person must shift her or his attention around to various spatial locations. The binding problem: characteristic of visual system where characteristics such as color and shape can be registered separately. As a result, visual system may not represent these important features of an object as a unified whole.