PSYC 2000 Chapter : Psych Memory
Document Summary
One prominent model is the information processing model of memory. An active system there are multiple types of memory-it is not one thing in one place in the brain. How does memory work? encoding: put into memory storage: hold in memory retrieval: recover from memory. Information-processing model: takes encoding, storage, and retrieval and sensory, 3 short/long-term memory. Memory stores: sensory memory, short-term memory (working memory, long-term memory. Sensory memory class demonstration: showed letters on the board for 1 sec and asked us to write. Holds info from the senses for a very brief duration. Each sense has a sensory memory associated with it. Auditory: echoic memory (about 4 sec) them down. Showed people an array of letters very fast. Cued to remember a certain row after seeing the letters. This showed that people could remember more than they could report. Memory span: magic number is 7 plus or minus 2.
