PSY270H1 Chapter 5: Chapter 5 reading

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY270H1
• Professor: Gillian Rowe

Document Summary

Memory: process involved in retaining, retrieving and using information about stimuli, images, events, ideas and skills after the original information is no longer present. Clive wearing: lost of memory due to brain damage. Remembers what just happens and forgets everything else 3 minutes later. Sensory memory -> short term memory -> long term memory sensory memory: holds all incoming info for fractions of a second second. Stm: 5 7 items for 15-13 seconds. Ltm: large amount of info. controlled process: rehearsal of stimulus, strategies to make memorable, strategies of attention to help focus encoding: process of storing information retrieval. Sparkler"s trail and projector"s shutter e g . 5 o u t of 1 2 l e t t e r s . S e n s or y m e m o r y is lar g e , b u t d u r a ti o n is b ri ef.