PSYCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Short-Term Memory, Long-Term Memory, Semantic Memory
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Selective attention- the ability to focus on only one stimulus from among all sensory input. Hearing you name being called in a crowd of noise. This gets moved into short term memory. Short term memory- memory system in which information is held for brief periods of time while being used. Working memory- an active system that processes the information in short-term memory. As you read a story, remembering something that happened previously to understand what is going on now is working memory figuring out a puzzle. Limited to about 3 or 5 items. Chunking- if bits of information are combined into meaningful units, more info can be held in short term memory. Duration of short term memory is 12 to 30 seconds without rehearsal. The practice of saying information to be remembered over and over in your head in order to retain it in short term memory.
