PSY 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Kim Peek, Sensory Memory, Representativeness Heuristic
2 Aug 2017
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The retention of information over time (e. g. , sensory, short-term, long-term: our memories are surprisingly good in most situations (e. g. , remembering how to get to work, our memories are surprisingly bad in others (e. g. , (cid:374)a(cid:373)es of people (cid:449)e(cid:859)(cid:448)e (cid:373)et(cid:895) This is referred to as the paradox of memory. Some people have exceptional memory: ki(cid:373) peek, the (cid:396)eal (cid:862) ai(cid:374) ma(cid:374)(cid:863, rajan, memorized the number pi. Sensory: raw data from sense organs that make up our perceptions of the world. Long-term memory: retention of important information from minutes, to year, to a lifetime: differ in terms of span and duration, allows us to watch tv/netflix by connecting the frames that are presented briefly. Sensory memory: allo(cid:449)s us to (cid:862)fill i(cid:374) the (cid:271)la(cid:374)ks(cid:863) i(cid:374) ou(cid:396) pe(cid:396)(cid:272)eptio(cid:374)s so that the(cid:455) a(cid:396)e (cid:448)ie(cid:449)ed as a holistic stream of events. Each sensory modality has its own form of sensory memory.
