PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Habituation, Echoic Memory, Background Noise

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

Document Summary

Internal and external triggers: internal triggers are things we are motivated (or aroused from) We can determine what we want to pay attention to and process further: external triggers are things in our environment which demand our attention. Sound or light, any change in stimuli: this information is registered and transferred to short-term memory, if we did not pull out the important thing that was said then it is gone. Evaluation of the importance of information: some sensory information transferred to short-term memory is not important, 72 is going to be on the exam, sometimes materials go immediately into long-time storage (ex. the number 72) Chess masters can remember positions of figures on the chess board, Professional hockey players can remember positions of players on the ice. Duration: less than 1 second (vision) or a few seconds (hearing) Attention information that passes through trigger is transferred to stm. Elaborative rehearsal: information subjected to deeper processing is transferred to ltm.