PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Short-Term Memory, Sensory Memory, Frontal Lobe
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There are many difference kinds of memory that differ in the following ways: duration, capacity, code, neural mechanism, conscious experience. Encoding: process in which it gets into your mind. Sensory memory (low level copy of the information) short term (contents of conscious awareness)/working memory long term memory (can retrieve after a few seconds, few hours, few days, few years later) Sperling"s cued recall (1960: inference that you have all the information there, the trick is that because sensory memory is so short the image fades from your mind. The longer the delay, the greater the memory loss. Sustained activation of neurons involved in sensation. Can not be modulated by top-down processing (is automatic) Iconic (visual: duration= . 15-0. 5 seconds, capacity=, code= visual, conscious experience= still hearing. Echoic (auditory: takes longer duration= 3-4 seconds, capacity=, code= auditory, neural mechanism- sustained activation, conscious experience= still hearing.
