PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Long-Term Memory, Tunxis Community College, Connectionism
20 Nov 2020
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Memory- an active system that receives information as the sense, organized and alters that information as it store it away, and then retrieves the information from storage. Echoic memory-auditory memory iconic memory-visual sensory memory, lasting only a fraction of a second. Capacity- everything that can be seen at one time. Duration-info that has must entered iconic memory will be pushed our very. Eidetic imagery- the (rare) ability to access a visual memory for thirty seconds quickly by new info, a process called masking or more (even over a long period of time) Chronic memory- the brief memory of something a person has just heard, helps people remember what other say long enough to recognize the meaning of the phrase. Capacity- limited to what can be heard at any one moment. Short-term memory (stm; working memory)- the memory system in which info is held or brief periods of time while being used.
