PSYCH 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Dimenhydrinate, Sensory Memory, Method Of Loci
5 Oct 2016
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Long-term memory seems to have no limit, but short-term memory has a limited storage passes into short-term memory in sensory memory capacity. Change blindness - ppl blind to huge changes. Limited storage capacity: the magic number 7 (+/- 2) You can use chunking strategies to make ur short-term memory have more capacity. If it"s relevant to you, it has a good shot of getting into long-term memory. How to get something into long term memory. That you are more likely to remember the first few items and last few items on a listbecause you start rehearsing the first few words and because the last few words are still in your short term memory. You get primacy effect - ppl have a good memory for items at the. Recency effect - ppl have a good memory for the last items on the list beginning of the list. Acronyms (kings play chess on fine grain sand)
