PSY 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Sensory Memory, Explicit Memory, Interference Theory

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 001
• Professor: Dewin

Document Summary

System to retain and recall information: encoding. Converting info into a form usable in memory: storage. The transformation of acquiring information from one form and transferring it into memory, another form. Recovery of stored information when it is needed. Sensory memory--selective attention short term memory -- consolidation long term memory. Short term memory retrieval -- long term memory. Ability to focus on subset of stimuli from all sensory input. Sensory memory: large capacity, exact representation of information, very short in duration (4 secs or less) Short-term memory (stm): information is held for brief periods of time (to 30 seconds) while being used. Limited capacity: about 7 +- 2 items: chunking: combining individual unit of information into one unit, more info can be held up to 30 seconds without rehearsal, maintenance rehearsal: reviewing information. Long-term memory: information is more or less permanently stored (lifetime: capacity: seemingly unlimited, duration: relatively permanent; lifetime.