Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Short-Term Memory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

>acquisition: encoding getting info into memory memory trace retention (storage) Information (visual or auditory) information >sensory register >stm short-term memory >output. Hippocampus: turn short-run memory into long-term memory tracking where we are, what are we doing. 1. sensory register: info held for fraction of a second. Other register very poor (e. g. small: short term memory (stm) Shelf-life of 20 seconds, rapidly lost unless we actively do something with it. Note: limited capacity (7+or-2 items chunking helping, forgetting (decay interference, acoustic coding (when words coding by sound, interference most by sounds the same) Jenkins & dallenbach (1924) recall after 8 hours, asleep group: long term memory (ltm) hard to storage. How to get info from stm into ltm consolidation ltp (sleep enhance memory) Evidence from cases of brain damage, e. g. clive wearing consider trish. Evidence from recall tasks serial position curve: remember the things in the beginning (primacy ltm) in the end (recency stm)