PSYCH-190 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Anterograde Amnesia, Temporal Lobe, Retrograde Amnesia
28 Sep 2020
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The ability to store and retrieve information over time. Memory: the process by which information is encoded, stored, and retrieved. Sensory memory: holds sensory information for a few seconds or less. When a grid of letters is flashed on screen for only 1/20th of a second, it is. Iconic memory test difficult to recall individual letters. But if prompted to remember a particular row immediately after the grid is shown, research participants will do so with high accuracy. Sperling used this procedure to demonstrate that although iconic memory stores the whole grid, the information fades away too quickly for a person to recall everything. A type of storage that holds non-sensory information for more than a few seconds but less than a minute. The process of keeping information in short-term memory by mentally repeating. Active maintenance of information in short-term storage. Combining small pieces of information into larger clusters or chunks of that are more easily held in short-term memory.
