PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Echoic Memory, Iconic Memory, Sensory Memory

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

Schemas help us undergo a categorizing process that helps us with memory recollection. Memory: the persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information. Encoding: the processing of information into the memory system- for example, by extracting meaning. Storage: the retention of encoded information over time. Retrieval: the process of getting information out of memory storage. Stage model: sensory memory (register) the initial stage where we come into contact with recordings of sensory information in the memory system. Background noise habituated/desensitized stimuli, forgotten within seconds (not registered nor transferred to short term memory. Internal trigger motivated and aroused by certain mechanism to perceive certain information [focus] (arousal stimuli) External trigger selective attention to changes in environment (stimuli arousal: short-term memory: activated memory that holds a few items while they are being used until they are before information is stored or forgotten. Duration in stm is rather short, and the capacity is limited.