PSYC 317 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sketchpad, Mental Model, Clive Wearing
20 Aug 2016
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Chapter 5: working memory memory is the process involved in. About stimuli, images, events, ideas, and skills. After the original info is no longer present memory functions as a time machine that helps us to: Remember facts that we have learned (semantic) Remember our plans for the future (prospective) Use skills that we have acquired (procedural) Damage to temporal lobe to viral encephalitis. Lives within the most recent one or two minutes of life. Active processes that can be controlled by the person. May differ from one task to another. Examples: rehearsal, memory strategies, attention strategies sensory memory persistence of vision-seeing the progression of still images as movement. Conclusions from sperling experiment: stm registers most of sensory info, info decays within a second, sensory also called iconic. Holds small amounts of info for short time. Big proportion of this info gets lost. Connects sensory memory and ltm proactive interference-previously learned and new info interfere.
