PSY B110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Echoic Memory, Filing Cabinet, Short-Term Memory
29 Oct 2016
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Acquisition of info due to interaction with environment, or experience. Encoding: putting info in form that we can store. Retrieval: getting info out of memories: filing cabinet- info on paper on people. Encoding on paper, store it in cabinet, then getting it out when needed. Sensory memory: what"s going on right now?, lasts short period, vision: constant stream of info to our eyes. Lasts second: unlimited capacity, allows us to operate, echoic memory: system that produces and stores auditory sense memories. Lasts for several seconds: short-term: thinking. Lasts 20 sec unless you do something. Repetition of information to maintain it during 20 sec. Info is limited, 7-8 pieces at a time: consciousness, phonological loop: inner voice (verbal material, visuospatial sketchpad: spatial or visual material, central executive: controls attention, integrates info, and manages the activities of phono loop and visual sketchpad. Info stays there: tip of the tongue.
