PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Baddeley'S Model Of Working Memory, Procedural Memory, Implicit Memory

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

Document Summary

Preserves information in its original sensory form for a brief time, only a fraction of a second. Allows the sensation of a visual pattern, sound, or touch to linger for a brief moment after sensory stimulation is over. Sperling"s study: his subjects saw three rows of letters ashed on a screen for just 1/20 of a second, a tone following the exposure signalled which row if letters the subject should report to the experimenter. Limited capacity store that can maintain unrehearsed information for up to about 20 seconds. Rehearsal is the process of receptively verbalizing or thinking about the information. Maintenance rehearsal, you are simply maintaining the information in consciousness. Elaborative processing, you are increasing the probability that you will retain the information. Information in the short term memory is lost in less than 20 seconds. Small capacity of stm was pointed out by george miller in a famous paper called the magic number.