PSY 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Forgetting Curve, Sensory Memory, Amnesia
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Shows the pattern (rate and amount) of forgetting that occurs over time. Shows that forgetting is rapid soon after original learning. The memory span task tests for the capacity of memory by giving a series of items one at a time. The person has to remember the items in the order in which they were presented. Memory span is the average number of items you can remember across a series of memory span trials. Humans have a (cid:373)e(cid:373)ory spa(cid:374) of miller"s 7 plus or (cid:373)i(cid:374)us (cid:1006) Shifted from single memory model to several systems/processes. Modal model merged and represented many other models. Stage model flow of information moves in stages through each component of memory. Information passes through 3 levels of memory. Sensory register, short term store & long term store. Structural features permanent features that do not alter from situation to situation they are three levels of information processing:
