PSY 1001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Anterograde Amnesia, Test Anxiety, Linguistic Determinism
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Overview: very brief sensory store, pay attention to the info in there, goes off to short term memory, rehearsing the info, encoding the info, goes to long term memory. Function: to sustain sensations for identification (if you should pay attention to it) Capacity: very large (how much we can remember) ( scenic ) Duration: very short (how long they last) Function: to do conscious work; to think. Capacity: 7 plus or minus 2 items or chunks . Duration: 10 - 15 seconds (with the absence of rehearsal) Function: to tie together the past with the present. Attention = notice the things that are in our sensory store". Rehearsal = helps keep information within our short term memory. Things like repeating a phone number to ourselves before we dial it. Extends the 10 - 15 seconds in short term memory. Encoding = notice things about the info or think about it in different ways.
