SI 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Continuous Partial Attention, Long-Term Memory, Hard Wired
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Our short term memory can hold approximately 7 things (working memory); varies across people so it"s usually 7 +/- 2. Sensory perceptions register and only some of those sensations become conscious. Only some of those sensations will come into conscious thought and then they need to be stored in working memory. Some subset of the stuff in your working memory will enter your long term memory. We can look at the output and figure out how to respond. In order for the entire process to work, we need to be paying attention to it. Learning: from working memory to long term memory. If associations are available, if it fits into a schema. Bottom - up: salience (how much draw something has) (property of visual stimulus that facilitates attentional capture) Limited capacity (information flow into our ltm is limited) 11. 2 million bits per second for unconscious perception (sensory register) We can only pay attention to so much.
