PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Long-Term Memory, Eidetic Memory, Alphabet Song

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

Document Summary

Focusing awareness on a narrow range of stimuli. The fuel used by memory to catalogue stimuli. Filter can occur before or after information processing. Irrelevant stimuli (or competing info. ) is filtered out ex: players in black shirt, gorilla. Sensory detection- senses used to collect information ex: eyes get info. Recognition of meaning- processing occurs; in brain. When high, filter likely to be at the beginning (before recognition) ex: exam. When low, filter likely to be at end (after recognition) ex: watching tv. *can only remember things by paying attention to them. Participants were asked to listen to a conversation and do one of three things: identify how many times a particular word was used, describe the subject of the conversation, both. Those who were asked to do both were the least accurate in their responses; due to divided attention memory was impaired. When you are next up for a presentation, you are mentally busy.