PSY 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Echoic Memory, Iconic Memory, Sensory Memory
Document Summary
Memory is the process involve din retaining, retrieving, and using information about stimuli, images, events, ideas, and skills after the original information is no longer present. Atkinson and shiffrin (1968): proposed a model of memory that was widely adopted and was later called the. Assumption: more time in stm yields better transfer to ltm. One way from sensory inputs to sensory memory and short-term memory. Both ways for long-term memory and decision and response systems from short-term memory. You see the image suddenly but it is gradually fading over a period of half a second, iconic memory. Easy to see if you go into a completely dark room and take a photo. Hard to prove with the data because the memory would fade away before participants could report findings of the fading room. This condition does not tell us much about iconic memory. Can usually only store about five letters or digits.
