PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Echoic Memory, Long-Term Memory, Iconic Memory
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Think of memory as a process or a plural verb. We have any memory systems and they work on transferring info. Brain has numerous memory systems which may be independent or they may interact with each other. Short term memory or working memory can keep memory for a short period of time. Long term memory is long term and theres 2 parts to it: implicit meory is unconscious (procedural memory, explicit is conscious. Declaritive memory remembers facts and info. has 2 parts: semeantic memory: is just fact s 6x7=42 we remember the answer but not the process, episodic is more procedural: so remembering our vacations. Often a sensory trace of the stimulus remains after the stimulus is gone. These traces are termed sensory memory and they tend to be short-lived. George sperlig was a cognitive psychologist who studied iconic memory. Partial report condition: out of 9 ppl tend to get 2. 5 right.
