Psychology 2135 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sensory Memory, Endel Tulving, Pierre Trudeau

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135
• Professor: Haynes

Document Summary

Encoding requires attention: focusing awareness on a narrowed range of stimuli or events, ex. when someone introduces themselves but you forget their name almost immediately later - thinking of other things when they introduce themselves. Working memory: aka short-term memory (stm, organized set of activities (rather than physical place) 2: most structures located in prefrontal cortex that operate for working memory, holds informations for about 20-30 seconds unless you make e orts to maintain it. Thursday, february 14, 2019: ex. forgetting curve, most people remember about 7 (+/- 2) item in working memory, referred to as miller"s magic number , ex. Working memory capacity (wmc): those with a greater wmc tend to score higher on tests of uid intelligence, ex. reading comprehension, problem solving tasks, reasoning, digit span tasks (repeating back numbers without error) 3: ex. cone, coat, core, cove, ear worm - fragment of song that repeats itself incessantly in your head!