PSYCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Long-Term Memory, Echoic Memory, Sensory Memory

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

Document Summary

Memory (cid:1007) steps to (cid:862)ha(cid:448)i(cid:374)g(cid:863) a (cid:373)e(cid:373)or(cid:455): encoding, storage, retrieval. Modal model of memory sensory memory short term (working memory) long term memory short term. Sensory memory a brief persistence of sensory information. Echoic memory: where auditory information is processed. Sperling studies of sensory 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, but they could see all the information. We write down the words after the list has been said. Primacy effect: we typically remember the first few words on the list. Recency effect: we typically remember the last few words on the list. Ex: digit span task lists of numbers are said out loud, different numbers in each list, the amount of numbers on the list increases each time (cid:862)the magi(cid:272)al 7 +/- (cid:1006)(cid:863)