PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 23-30: Mindset, The Automatic, Heritability

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Heather Jenkin

Document Summary

The automatic processing, which happens without our awareness produces implicit memories (non-declarative memories)(implicit memories are formed without our awareness that we are building a memory, and without rehearsal or other processing in working memory. We very briefly capture a sensory memory, analogous to an echo or an image, of all the sensations we take in. Sensory memory consists of about a 3 to 4 second echo, or a. Evidence of auditory sensory memory, called echoic memory, can occur after someone says, what did i just say? even if you weren"t paying attention, you can retrieve about the last eight words from echoic memory. After encoding something well, we forget it. ( famous forgetting curve) forgetting is initially rapid, then levels off with time. (people might forget some of the things they have learned in high school but the things they remember, will stay for a long time)