PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Free Recall, Short-Term Memory, Recognition Memory
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Lab 6: recall & recognition memory with signal detection analysis. 2 memory experiment tasks today examples to help you design your own experiment which you will run and write up as a lab report with a partner due feb 22nd (after reading week) Brain is a powerful computer with separate types of memory in different brain structures. The computer metaphor of the mind essentially, a computer codes information stores information uses information procedure. Model of cognitive process stage 1 - encoding stage 2 - comparison. 3 types of memory: sensory memory high capacity, very brief has impact on sensory mechanism. Attention is important: short term memory about 20 seconds very limited. 7+/- 2 item capacity: long term memory. Very long duration could fail due to storage (encoding) or retrieval errors. Primacy (had time to practice and move it to ltm) and recency effect (still in stm and have time to practice and write it down somewhere).
