PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - The Cocktail Party, Episodic Memory, Sensory Memory
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In order for something to potentially be remembered, it must be attended to in the first place. It has to be selective because it is limited: selective attention is adaptive, change blindness: the common failure for people to notice large changes in their environment. Visual search tasks: searching for one feature is fast and automatic (parallel processing) The target will pop out at you. Blue circle: searching for two (or more) features is slow and effortful (serial processing) Selective listening: the cocktail party phenomenon. Generally have no conscious knowledge about the information being presented to the other (unattended) ear. The modal memory model: sensory memory: memory for sensory information that lasts only a fraction of a second. We are not usually even aware of it: short-term or working memory: memory that will remain for only about 20- 30 seconds, unless you actively think about or rehearse it.
