PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Hermann Ebbinghaus, Akira Haraguchi, Sensory Memory
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March 14, 2008 pi day competition at harvard. Encoding- put into memory: have to pay attention to something, could be anything trying to remember. Storage- maintain in memory: variety of processes. Retrieval- recover from memory, bring it into consciousness. Sensory input to sensory registers (sensory memory) for only a fraction of a second. Encoding attention gets put into working memory (or short term memory(stm)) To stay in short term memory it requires rehearsal. Then things can be put into long term memory (ltm) When you retrieve it it gets back into consciousness (stm) Holds only a few items (4+/- 1 typically) Lasts only a very short period (only 20 seconds) Aided by chunking, information put into larger chunks. Levels of processing: structural encoding- based on how does it look, phonemic encoding- based on how it sounds, semantic encoding- what the information or stimulus means.