PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Sensory Memory, Background Noise, Hermann Ebbinghaus

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

If any of the stages (encoding, storage, or retrieval) is not achieved, then effective memory of that given information will not be achieved either. There is a self-motivated or aroused reason to direct attention to perceive certain information (arousal stimuli) Example: deciding to direction attention to listening to professor ennis" lecture because he may have valuable information that helps us pass the course: can be externally triggered: Attention is directed to something because of a sudden change in the environment (stimuli arousal) Example: a loud noise at the back of the room causes you to shift your attention towards it. If the information is too much, the brain tries to find ways to chunk the information into more manageable pieces using existing schemas. The more you know; the more you can know . The senses register information that is stored temporarily in amazing. Some of the information was deemed important and so it was furthered transferred into stm.