PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Long-Term Memory, Clive Wearing, Sensory Memory
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Memory 2/8: simple experiment: bed rest blanket cot awake tired yawn dream sleep drowsy crib snooze snore pillow, do well on first and maybe last items. Last item(s) still in awareness, easy to write down. Short term memory - conscious awareness: primacy effect, good recall for items at the beginning of the list. Strategies: visualization, meaning behind words, maintenance rehearsal (repetition) Long term memory - storage for things you aren"t thinking of. Transfer - a fringe benefit of thinking about things in stm: how can effects be explained, inferred concepts, a model of memory, information -> sensory memory -> short term memory long term memory, sensory memory. Iconic - a visual store (lasts half a second) Echoic - an auditory store (lasts a few seconds) Interference from other material: long term memory. Processing information helps transfer it to ltm: we are not aware of material in ltm.
