PSY 205 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Allan Paivio, Juggling, Afterimage

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 205
• Professor: Houck

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Chapter 7: human memory: encoding: getting information, involves forming a memory code, storage: maintaining, retrieval: getting it out. The role of attention: attention involves focusing awareness on a narrowed range of stimuli or events, people can"t multi task. Memory goes down on things: switching attention back and forth. Levels of processing: levels-of-processing theory proposes that deeper levels of processing result in longer- lasting memory codes. Sensory memory: sensory memory: preserves information in its original sensory form for a brief time (fraction of a second, in the case of vision, afterimage, making circles with fire crackers. Long-term memory: long-term memory (ltm): an unlimited capacity store that can hold information over lengthy periods of time, flashbulb memory: unusually vivid and detailed recollections of momentous events. 7. 3 retrieval: getting information out of memory: tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon: the temporary inability to remember something you know, accompanied by a feeling that it"s just out of reach.