PSY100Y5 Study Guide - Final Guide: False Alarm, Response Bias, Recognition Memory
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Lab 6: recall and recogniion memory and signal detecion analysis. Brain is a powerful computer with separate types of memory in diferent brain structures. Essenially, a computer: codes (i. e. inputs) informaion, stores informaion, uses informaion, and produces and output (retrieves info) Sensory memory (sm: high capacity, very brief, has impact on sensory mechanism, attention is important. Short term memory (stm: about 20 secs (15-30secs, very limited. Long term memory (ltm: all of our experiences, knowledge, vast capacity (ininite?, very long duraion. Could fail due to storage (encoding) or retrieval errors. Researchers have found few things based on sm, stm, ltm. Remember irst few words and last few words. Primacy efect: we tend to do beter with the 1st items. Recency efect: we also do well with the last items. Y retenion (%) / x = retenion interval. Most info is lost in 20 minutes 1 hour when there is no atempt to retain it.
