PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Richard Shiffrin, Satanic Ritual Abuse, Hermann Ebbinghaus

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: James Mac Dougall

Document Summary

Attention and memory knowledge: memory the nervous system"s capacity to acquire and retain usable skills and. How does attention determine what is remembered: attention is important function of everyday life. In a visual search task, there are both targets and distractors: we automatically and rapidly identify stimuli that differ for one feature (size, colour, orientation) Auditory attention allows selective listening: attention is limited hard to do two things at once. + large discrepancies exist between what most people believe they see and what they actually see: show how attention influences memory. What are the basic stages of memory: memory is in three distinct phases, encoding phase the processing of information so that it can be stored. Fraction of a second or as long as a lifetime: retrieval phase the act of recalling or remembering stored information to use it. Information attended to is passed from sensory stores to short term memory (stm) Transformation of the information into its new form.