PSYCH 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Memory Rehearsal, Cultural Studies, Menarche
18 Nov 2017
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Memory is influenced what you"re thinking about, what you"re paying attention to, and what our expectations are. Sights, sounds, and other sensory info are stored but only momentarily. Info held onto as long as it is useful. Information is briefly held in mind while also engaging in some effort to monitor or manipulate those items. Sat is predictive of college success because it is taxing towards working memory in the same way that college is. Need to manage time, attend to test info, read passages and questions + hold it in mind. Study: participant wears headphones, pay attention to only input from one side of the headphones, other side has random input that has nothing to do with the attended side but has participant"s name inserted in somewhere. The likelihood that participant will hear their name is related to working memory abilities. Those with worse working memory skills were more likely to hear their memories.
