PSYC 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Distributed Computing, Perseveration, Musical Tone
4 Apr 2014
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Page 116-142, 26 pgs page 1 of 9. The importance of memory: memory: the processes involved in retaining, retrieving, and using information about stimuli, images, events, ideas, and skills after the original information is no longer present. For example, rehearsal with repeating a stimulus over and over helps hold information in the short-term memory. Sensory memory: sensory memory: the retention, for brief periods of time, of the effects of sensory stimulation (large capacity) Page 116-142, 26 pgs page 2 of 9. Since the tones are presented after the letters are turned off, attention is directed to the memory of the letters. Special memory abilities: eidetic memory (photographic): anecdotal evidence by charles stromeyer, claimed to have found a subject. Show right eye a noise image, then show left eye another noise image the next day; claimed she could fuse the two in mind"s eye for stereographic image: savantism: individuals with special abilities, e. g. daniel.
