PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Dennis Amiss, Sensory Memory, Perfectly Clear
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Describes different memory systems that function to store information in different ways. Sensory memory: instantaneous, stores a lot of information. What you pay attention to is what"s transferred from sensory memory to short- term memory. Short-term memory: temporary short-termed memory system, unrehearsed information is lost. At every stage there is a funneling of information. Mysterious how we store things into long-term memory, sometimes information does not need to be processed deeply to keep it in memory. A memory system that momentarily preserves extremely accurate images of sensory information. Information that is not quickly passed to short-term memory is gone forever. These systems may allow us to experience the world as a continuous stream of experience, weaving together the past and present seamlessly. Give people a grid, flash it to them, ask people to recall some piece of it (bottom row, left-hand column) Iconic memory was demonstrated in sperling"s classic experiment (exposure =
