PSY270H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Roger Shepard, Episodic Memory, Semantic Memory

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY270H1
• Professor: Susanne Ferber

Document Summary

Short-term or working memory - information that stays in our memory for brief periods about 10- 15 seconds if we don"t repeat it over and over. Long-term memory - responsible for storing information for long periods of time: episodic memory - memories of experiences, procedural memory - tasks that involve muscle coordination, semantic memory - memories of facts. The retention, for brief periods of time, of the effects of sensory stimulation. The sparkler"s trail - persistence of vision or the retention of the perception of light in your mind. The projection shutter - persistence of vision fills in the darkness by retaining the image of the previous frame. Sperling concluded from these results that a short-lived sensory memory registers all or most of the information that hits our visual receptors, but that this information decays within less than a second. Iconic memory - brief sensory memory for visual stimuli (visual icon)