PSY 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Iconic Memory, Sensory Memory, Implicit Memory
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Memory: process involved in retaining, retrieving, and using info about stimuli, images, events. Ideas, and skills after the original info is no longer present. Active anytime some past experience has an affect on the way you think or behave now. Sensory memory: brief persistence of image or sound (second or fraction of a second) or in the future. Working memory: anything your presently thinking about (current conscious experience) Executive system+ modality- specific short term storage systems. Atkinson and shiffrin (1968) proposed a model of memory that was widley adopted and was later called modal model of memory. Information can travel between long term and short term memory. Short term has access to decision and response system i this model. We perceive it as fading even though the image is already gone. Mostly gone by about half a second. Brain holds onto a representation of the image.
