PSYCH 100 Lecture Notes - Explicit Memory, Coding Theory, Implicit Memory

• School: UMASS-Amherst
• Department: Psychology & Brain Sciences
• Course: PSYCH 100
• Professor: tamararahhal

Document Summary

Three steps to having a memory: encoding , storage , retrieval able to go and retrieve that information. Sensory memory short term (working memory) long term memory. Iconic memory where visual information is processed. Echoic memory where auditory information is processed. Sperling studies of memory: flash matrix of letters/numbers for 1/20 sec, subjects reported what they saw, counted pieces of information remembered. Results: people could report 4-9 pieces of information, butthey could see all of the information. Holds sensory information in its raw form so that it can be coded into some understandable means and transferred to short term memory. Up to nine pieces of information at a time. Easy to enter: attend to item last few attended items are in short term memory. Lots of entry paths: last seven encountered items from sensory memory/information from long term memory memory/recycled short term memory information from short term memory.