PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Echoic Memory, Sensory Memory, Memory Span

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Behavioural perspective: behaviour influenced by environmental factors. (external: concentrates on overt behaviour (overt meaning observable, stresses s-r relationships and argues that these are stamped in, in-between stimulus and response there is cognition. Cognition is the mental processes that one interprets, predicts, evaluates, expectations that one has of the stimulus that evokes a response. Response based on what is going on in head (cognition: kohler put a bunch of monkeys in a cage and put bananas on top of cage. All they had access to was boxes and bamboo sticks. The sudden understanding of how to solve a problem as a result of reorganizing. Memory: the learning that has persisted over time: information has been encoded, stored, and retrieved, recall (remember, recognition, re-learning. S (sensory store) (short-term memory) (long-term memory) Short-term memory (stm): retains information that we"re working on: can hold information for about 15-20 seconds, it has a limited capacity and can hold 7 2 items of info (memory span)