PSYCH 100 Lecture 7: PSY100 Modules 20, 21, 22

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

Document Summary

Memory: modal model of memory, sensory memory, short term memory, long term memory, forgetting, decay, interference, repression, memory malleability (distortions, false memories, eyewitness memory. 3 steps of "having a memory": encoding, storage. A brief persistence of sensory information: types of sensory registers (memory): Echoic memory- where auditory information is processed. Iconic memory- where visual information is processed: questions: In its raw form so that it can be coded into some understandable means and transferred to stm. Up to 9 pieces of informationat a time. Primacy effect- we typically remember the first few words on the first. Recency effect- we typically remember the fast few words on the list. The magical 7 +- 2- we can hold seven plus or minus two pieces of information in short term memoryj. How do short term memory and long term memory differ. Long term mem must be attended to and rehearsal. Last encountered items from sensory memo from stm only.