PSY 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Short-Term Memory, Working Memory, Sensory Memory
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Continued perception of stimuli after its gone. Brief duration (half second and full gone by one second) Rapid decay in the absence of rehearsal. Little or no decay- failures of retrieval mainly caused by interference. For over 100 years psychologist have distinguished between 2 types of memory. Short term memory is the primary memory. Useful for retaining information not currently in use. Neuropsychology : the study of the effect of brain damage on psychological processes. People with stm deficits can perform well on tasks like math or logic problems. The experimenter would say chj and the subject would have to repeat the sequence after 7 seconds. Withing the 7 seconds the subject would count backward by 3s numbers were said by the subject stop rehearsal. Varied the amount of time in which the participants had to retain the letters. Short term memory duration is only about 15-20 seconds (fast)
