PSY 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Psychological Trauma, Iconic Memory, Sensory Memory
17 Oct 2016
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Memory: receives info from the sense organizes and alters that info as it stores it away, and then retrieves info from storage. Memories are constructed: combining info that we already have with new info coming in, perceiving info within certain lenses, biases, memory can be changed, edited, affected, even falsely created. Parallel distributed processing model: explanation of memory retrieval that proposes a simultaneous process across many neural networks. Levels-of-processing model: memory"s duration depends in the effort made to understand its meaning when it is processed. Sensory memory: very first stage: info enters the nervous system through sensory systems, super short-term memory, typically decays in about 1/5 to second. Echoic memory: brief memory of something a person has just heard: capacity: limited to what can be heard at any moment, smaller capacity than iconic, duration: longer than iconic, 2-4 seconds. Tying a shoe, riding a bike, driving: declarative (explicit) memory: type of ltm containing info that is conscious and known.
