PSY 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Sensory Memory, Explicit Memory, Amygdala

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 250
• Professor: Ryan Parsons

Document Summary

3 stages of memory: sensory memory: a copy of sensory informaion that you"ve just seen, heard, tasted, etc. , Thought to be stored in the primary sensory areas. Capacity: somewhat diicult to determine: short-term memory (stm): memory for informaion that lasts minutes to seconds. Limited capacity: thought to be 7 +/- 2: long-term memory (ltm): permanent memory. Diferent types of ltm: the amygdala: explicit memory: deliberate recall of informaion that one recognizes as a memory (knowing that it"s a memory) Ex. the name of high school principal: implicit memory: memory for tasks that do not require conscious awareness (knowing how to to something)