PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Sensory Memory, Semantic Memory, Change Blindness

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Giguere

Document Summary

The first thing to notice about the atkinson-schifrin model is that it includes three memory stores. Stores: retain information in memory without using it for any specific purpose; they essentially serve the same purpose as hard drives for a computer. The three stores include: sensory memory, short-term memory (stm) and long term-term memory (ltm) Control processes: shift information from one memory store to another. The atkinson model states that memory is a multistage process. Information flows through a brief sensory memory, where rehearsal encodes it into long-term memory for permanent storage. Memories are retrieved from long term memory and brought into short-term storage for further processing. Information enters sensory memory store through vision, heating and other senses and the control process we call attention. Attention: selects which information will be passed on to st- some information will go through encoding (the process of storing information in the ltm system( Retrieval: brings information from ltm back into stm.