PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Short-Term Memory, Echoic Memory, Iconic Memory
4 Apr 2017
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Memory: overview, encoding, sensory memory, working (short term) memory, long term memory, processes for storing long-term memories. Overview: memories, thoughts, experiences, or associations from the past, process of making and using memories, encoding, storage, retrieval. Only remember some stuff: you can"t remember everything, encoding, deciding which stimuli (information) get stored, sensory memory, working memory, long term memory. Increasingly selective and increasingly long lasting as it goes through the processes: sensory memory, brief replay of sensory information, sight, retain things you see in the visual cortex. Iconic memory: sifts through to find importance, lasts fractions of a second, sounds, retain things that you hear, echoic memory, able to reprocess auditory information, lasts about 3 seconds. Information currently in use: working memory, short term memory, discrete (basic) pieces of information (letters, numbers, only holds what we pay attention to, duration is also limited, about 30 seconds, long term memory.
