PSY 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Short-Term Memory, Echoic Memory, Iconic Memory
29 Jan 2020
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Ie person remembers an object that it saw briefly before it disappeared- once object is gone- it is still in memory for a short period of time. Information in stm needs to be mentally rehearsed, otherwise it rapidly disappears. If you are prevented from mental rehearsal, even small amounts of information are loss: why, 1. Short term memories decay: fading of information over time: 2. In other words, we draw information from our long term memory to evaluate and understand information that we are working with in our short term memory. Capacity of ltm is much larger than stm (unclear as to exactly how much larger though!: 2. Information in ltm endures for much longer than the 20 seconds of. Stm: permastore: type of long term memory that appears to be permanent, 1. Semantic memory: our knowledge of facts about the world: what is the largest/smaller province in canada quebec / pei, 2.
