PSY 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Working Memory, Change Blindness, Implicit Memory
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Memory: our capacity to retain and store information for later retrieval. Three phases: encoding processing of information in order to store it, storage maintaining encoded information over time, retrieval recalling store information when needed. Attention: directing your mental resources towards something in order to process it: visual attention, auditory attention. Selective attention: attend to the important information, while ignoring irrelevant information. Change blindness: an individual"s failure to notice large visual changes in the environment. Atkinson and shiffrin argued our memories are in different types of boxes . Sensory storage our senses are the basis of all of our memories (vision, hearing, taste, smell, touch) Lasts up to a few seconds max. Short-term storage memory storage that briefly holds a limited amount of information. Working memory: actively process information to keep it available for use. Chunking: working memory organizes information into meaningful units to make it easy to remember. Long-term storage permanent storage, with nearly limitless capacity and duration.
