PSYC 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Memory Span, Retina, Working Memory
27 Feb 2017
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Our perceptual processes actively try to assign some stimuli to the foreground (figure) and some to the. Psyc 107 guest lecture meaningless background (ground) Figure: part of the environment that has meaning. How your perceptual system determines what edges and stimuli go together to form an object. Simplicity: organize elements to provide simplest form. Likelihood: organize elements based on most likely arrangement. Active system constantly moving through different levels of processing. Starts with sensory memory from the environment. Beginning stage of when you first learn something. Memory codes: mental representations of physical stimuli. Take sensory memory (senses) and turn it into something that the brain can understand. Automatic processing: (also called shallow processing surface level) maintenance rehearsal, repetition, good for short term memory, not long term memory. Effortful processing elaborative rehearsal, deep processing, relating new info to old info, mnemonics: e. g. rhyming, chunking, visual imagery, organizational encoding.
