PSYC101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Long-Term Memory, Sensory Memory, Cognitive Psychology
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Role of mental processes in determining our behaviour. Retrograde anemia not being able to remember things from year before. E. g lady hits head minor brain injury, forgets 20 years prior. Forgetful, cannot form basic functions, pissed off. How we think, how we feel about: ourselves, people, objects, how we act: what we can do. Keyboard = encoding and gets info into memory. Saved file = storage and maintains memory. Reopened file= retrieval pulls back out of memory. Visual sensory memory icon [seeing things in the dark] Auditory sensory memory echo [ half listening to things and being able to recall them] Decays quickly ~second but with a large capacity. Limited capacity (timewise up to 20 seconds) Testing of duration of unrehearsed information peterson and peterson shows a reduction in the ability to recall unrehearsed information after a few seconds. Capacity can be increased if it is rehearse repeatedly.
