BCS 111 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Long-Term Memory, Donald Broadbent, Explicit Memory

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Brain and Cognitive Sciences
• Course: BCS 111
• Professor: David Ruskin

Document Summary

Sensory memory- info from senses linger (maintained in memory) Iconic memory- high capacity, very brief (decays immediately) Information theory- source ---> transmitter ---> signal (noise source)----> receiver ---> destination. As message is transmitted, it is encoded & decoded. Channel capacity- amount of info that can pass thru channel. Modal model- 3 store model of memory. Incoming info --> early analysis --> short ter(cid:373) (cid:373)e(cid:373)ory ((cid:373)ai(cid:374)tai(cid:374)ed i(cid:374) pri(cid:373)ary via rehearsal if not lost?) --> long term memory (goes back to short term for retrieval) 7+/- 2- # of chunks that can be remembered is this. Can select only ~3 items at a time. Primacy- remember things first on a list. Recency- remember best the last items (most recent) Can be lost from working memory easily. Phonological similarity effects- more similar ---> decrease in recall. Phonological loop- repeat things in echoic memory up to few seconds. Visuospatial sketchpad- spatial problem solving aided by visual working space.