PSY 301 Lecture Notes - Cognitive Science, Sensory Memory, Cognitive Psychology

• School: UT-Austin
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 301
• Professor: Samuel D.Gosling

Document Summary

Encoding is just taking something in and processing it in a way the brain can handle. Retrieval is getting the information that you need. Number of items you can hold in short-term memory: 7+-2 [seven plus or minus 2] Can increase it by using chunking: connecting words to certain categories. Came from george miller: most respective cognitive scientist, had a book with this magic number, father of cognitive psychology. To transform short term to long term memory: Broadly split in 2 categories: declarative.