PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Implicit Memory, Prospective Memory, Sensory Memory

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

Memory: the nervous system"s capacity to acquire and retain usable skills and knowledge. Searching for two features is serial (you need to look at the stimuli one at a time) and effortful (takes longer and requires more attention) Shadowing: the participant receives a different auditory messages in each ear, but is required to repeat ( shadow ) only one. Selective attention can operate on multiple stages of processing. Filter theory: selective nature of attention; attention is like a gate that opens for important information and closes for irrelevant information. Attention helps people focus on important objects in their environments. Unattended information is processed at least to some extent; extracted meaning from the word even though they didn"t process the word consciously. Change blindness blindness is people"s unawareness that they often do not notice apparently obvious changes in their environments. Encoding phase: the processing of information so that it can be stored.