PSYCH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Short-Term Memory, Episodic Memory, Sensory Memory

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 1100
• Professor: Joshua Fedder

Document Summary

Storage: once information is attended to and encoded, it has to be stored for later retrieval. Some of the information in sensory memory is carried on to short term memory, a second system for retaining information in memories for a brief period of time. It is limited in both the amount of information it can hold, and the length of time it can hold it. These i(cid:374)clude : having or not having a hippocampus. Levels of processing: according to the theory of levels of processing, information that is processed at a "deeper" level is more likely to be retained than information processed at a "shallow" level, encoding specificity. Forgetting: why do we forget, mechanisms of forgetting, decay - fading of memories over time, results from disuse or lack of practice, use it or lose it, may not fully account for forgetting. Interference - similar memories compete with each other: retroactive interference - new info blocks old.