PSYC 325 Lecture 5: Week 5
1 Oct 2016
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Objectives: demonstrate understanding of transient memory (sensory and working/ st) by: Memory: transient acquisition from environment, long-term storage, metamemory: active and deliberate retention, recollection or suppression. Transient memory: short lasting mental representations, atkinson-shiffrin 1968, 2 stage cognitive model a. i. a. ii. a. iii. Conscious accessibility limited by working memory capacity a. iv. Control processes: rehearsal, coding, decision, retrieval strategies a. vi. Higher success rate at recalling with cued reporting than total recall: findings. Attention can be directed post hoc c. i. c. ii. More sensor info is encoded that we realized: conclusion: sensory memory exists. Limited capacity, effortlessly available and fleeting a. i. a. ii. Responsible for dealing with multiple/ all sensory info. Handling incoming sensory info + grabig info from ltm bank. Forgotten quickly: george miller 1956, digit span & magic number 7 +/- 2. Intelligent = able to hold more digits in wm: meaningfulness b. i. A limit in the number of unique concepts/links to ltm that could be held active b. i. 1.
