PSYC 336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Long-Term Memory, Sensory Memory

• School: University of San Diego
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 336
• Professor: Appleton-Knapp

Document Summary

The acquisition of memories and the working-memory system. Acquisition the process of gaining information and placing it into memory. Storage phase the state in which a memory remains until it is retrieved. Retrieval the process of locating information in memory and activating that information for use. Information (input) is provided to a computer = acquisition phase. Info resides in some dormant form on a hard drive or cloud = storage phase. Info can be brought back from this dormant form via a search process through the disk = retrieval phase. Modal model - atkinson and shiffrin (1968) Information first arrives stored in sensory memory. A form of memory that holds on to just-heard or just-seen input in a raw sensory form. The place where you hold information while you"re working on it. Some info is then transferred to long term memory. Sensory memory plays a much smaller role in modern theorizing. Working memory is used instead of short-term memory.