PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Donald O. Hebb, Long-Term Memory, George Sperling
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From her lectures (i only have lecture 23 here) To uiunderstand how memory works we need to see how information is entered in the brain (encoding) How information is translated into action (retrieval) Remembering short term: atkinson and shifferin: multi-store model of memory, people rely on two memory systems, 1. Sort term memory: limited capacity working memory, we use to hold information after it has been analysed onto a meaningful form 1s to less than 1 minute. Rapidly forgotten but can be maintained in the process of rehearsal: multistore memory can be translated to long term memory to be encapsulated to neural connection and retrieved at a later time. Sensory memory: the ability to extract information that is critical at a glance. How much information can the human extract at a single glance?\ The researchers mmight flash a matrix of letter s for a second and ask the person to identify the letters.
