PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Long-Term Memory, Explicit Memory

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

Document Summary

Sensory memory: stores a perfect picture of the world, but for a fraction of a second. System that is able to encode a perfect picture but only for a short amount of time. *both iconic & echoic tend to have the same properties, they can capture quite a bit of detail but they decay quickly. (cid:455)ou do(cid:374)(cid:859)t ha(cid:448)e to stud(cid:455) this; (cid:455)ou just know) Explicit memory (memories that you actually had to learn, and had to put some time) (example; birthday of your mother, course content) Intelligence subtest; for example, #s (number 7-(cid:858)(cid:373)agi(cid:272) (cid:374)u(cid:373)(cid:271)er(cid:859)) Semi-permanent storage (information is lost after 20-30 seconds unless it is rehearsed) Elaborative rehearsal brings the information to long term memory. Distinguish from: working memory capacity (conceptually this model is different it talks about the operations that are going to be executed by the short term memory) (better explanation of what processes are involved in this memory storage system)