01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Sensory Memory, Endel Tulving, Classical Conditioning

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Dr. Brynildsen

Document Summary

Recall: have to produce memories items using minimal retrieval cues. Recognition: conscious knowledge of whether something has been previously encountered. Encoding: environmental information is translated into a meaningful entity. Retrieval pull from memory information previously encoded and stored there. Atkinson and shiffrin"s three-stage model of information processing: 3 stages. Sensory memory: system that holds information for a fraction of a second after the stimulus disappears. Short-term memory: for information that is available to consciousness for about 20-30 seconds. Explicit memory: conscious recollection of material from long-term memory (declarative) Can verbalize and say what they are. Episodic memory: memory of personally experienced events. Implicit memory: not brought to mind consciously, but expressed in behavior (nondeclarative) Procedural memory: memory for the performance of skills. Attention: focusing consciousness on a limited range of experience. Determines what information moves from sensory to short-term memory. Selective attention: the process by which we focus on important information. Change blindness: lack of detection of changes in stimuli.