PSYCH207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Short-Term Memory, Echoic Memory, Iconic Memory

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH207
• Professor: Jonathan Fugelsang

Document Summary

Important terms: encoding how information is acquired, retrieval calling to mind previously stored information, storage how info is stored and coded in memory, forgetting cannot retrieve previously stored info. Memory structures: the modal model (atkinson and shiffrin, where you have info sensory memory short term (reherse) long term memory. Sensory memory part 1: the initial, brief storage of sensory information, believed that we have various types of sensory memory (visual - iconic, auditory - echoic, olfactory, tactile) Sensory memory part 2: lightning strike is a good example of visual memory. Short term and long term memory require practice and our active participation to get processed into working memory: sensory memory just needs to visual system. The max number of pieces of info that can be correctly recalled from short- term memory) +-2: this can be changed by chunking (long and short term memory, forgetting, 1. Trace decay automatic fading of the memory trace: 2.