PSYC 2000 Quiz: Memoryy.docx
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What is memory: an active system, receives information, organizes and alerts that information, retrieves the information, there are multiple types of memory it is not one thing in one place in the brain, several models exist, one prominent model is the information processing model of memory. Sperling"s procedure iconic memory: showed people an array of letters very fast, too many to remember, cued to remember a certain row after seeing the letter, people could remember almost the whole row, this showed that people could remember more than they could report, the capacity is essentially unlimited! Short term memory: the magic number is 7, plus or minus 2, activated memory that holds a few items briefly, lasts up to about 30 seconds, e. g. the 7 digits of a phone # while dialing, before the information is stored or forgotten, information goes into short term memory but leaves due to interference or decay.
