PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Connectionism, Coding Theory, Sketchpad

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Russell Day

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Iconic store: visual sensory register: echoic store: sound sensory register, short-term memory/working memory: a memory store that temporarily holds a limited amount of information. Motor codes: movement: chunking: combining individual items into larger units of meaning, long-term memory: library of more durable stored memories. Psyc 100 chapter 1: serial position effect: the ability to recall an item is influenced by the item"s position in a series. Primacy effect: a superior recall of the earlier items. Items are being transferred into the long-term memory. Recency effect: a superior recall of the most recent items. Mnemonist/memorist: person who displays extraordinary memory skills: schema: a mental framework about some aspect of the world. A common element / theme to help remember www. notesolution. com. 7: storage: retaining information, associative network: a massive network of associated ideas and concepts, with each node contain 1 concept or information, ex.