PSY 164 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sequence, Memory Span, Sensory Memory
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1st stage: sensory memory momentary, short. 2nd stage: short-term memory (working memory) currently active thoughts. 3rd stage: long-term memory storage; the vault ; the file folder in your head. Digging info out of storage and moving into the active thoughts memory. Can hold 5-9 open windows on the desktop of your brain. Ex: first 4267; next 42675 etc. Chunking: taking larger set of items and grouping together into meaningful packages. Ex: ciafbinbccbs cia fbi nbc cbs. Decay: losing information over time: ~18 seconds, how long you can be not actively thinking about it before you start to forget. Retroactive interference: new info impacts ability to remember older info: remember many new people"s names forgetting the first name after the 10th, active encoding strategy: shifting from short long-term as quickly as possible. Proactive interference: first piece of info learned is interfering with ability to learn new info. Semantic code: the meaning/concept of the word.
