PSY 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Hermann Ebbinghaus, Long-Term Memory, Sensory Memory
16 Apr 2016
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The first major experimental studies of memory were performed by. Duration only lasts a second, but capacity is unlimited. Dark and stormy night, and the lightening flashes, and for a second you see everything in your yard, but forget right after: long term memory. Duration is lifetime, and the capacity is unlimited. Attention-fundamental process of selectively focusing on particular stimuli: attention determines which stimuli makes memory, pay attention- stimulus enters explicit memories, not pay attention-stimulus may enter implicit memory. Experiments when two lists of words are coming in over headphones, they are asked to repeat one of the lists of words. Cannot pay attention to two things at one time. Typical human can remember 7+/_2 bits of information at a time, like phone numbers are 7 digits: chunking-combining small elements into a greater whole. Variety of working memory: to test if there are: test if you can do two things at once, ex.
