PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Claude Shannon, Sensory Memory, Family Resemblance

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 111
• Professor: David Ruskin

Document Summary

Tend to generalize things with same size. After playing with object, shows texture bias. Humans show bias against size, rather shape bias. Information from our senses lingers a little. There are usually viewed as sensory processes, rather than memory processes. After images noted far back as aristotle. Asked to recall one row, which has 4 characters. Longer time before recall, worse memory for contents of. Must be able to store full array in order to perform row-report. Auditory presentations show bigger boost at end than visual. As messages are transmitted, they are usually encoded and decoded. Binary is a code for represented info. Working memory emphasizes function role, not just passive store. Rehearsal - repeating item to yourself over and over. Chunking - re-coding the list into larger chunks . 7 2 - what is the carrying capacity of the human system. How much information can human memory carry.