PSYC 1115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Richard Shiffrin, Iconic Memory, Sensory Memory
Document Summary
Memory is learning that persists over time; it is information that has been acquired and stored and can be retrieved. Alzheimer"s disease begins as difficulty remembering new information and progresses into an inability to do everyday tasks. Over several years, someone with alzheimer"s may become unknowing and unknowable. Lost memory strikes at the core of our humanity, leaving people robbed of a sense of joy, meaning and companionship. At the other extreme are people who would win gold medals in a memory olympics. To a psychologist, evidence that learning persists includes these 3 measures of retention: recall- retrieving information that is not currently in our conscious awareness, but that was learned at an earlier time. Fill in the blank questions on a test: recognition- identifying items previously learned, a multiple-choice question tests your recognition, relearning- learning something more quickly when you learn it a second or later time.
