PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Sketchpad, Information Processing, George Sperling
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Memory: information that is retained longer than the stimulus that created it. We can retrieve it at a later date. Where in the brain is memory located. Forgetting the special memories o o o. Boxes in your head - atkinson & shiffrin 1968. Capacity and duration of each type of memory. Short-term memory: what we"re consciously aware of. Briefly holds all of the incoming sensory information (everything we receive through our senses o. We take in a lot more than we can actually report o. Partial report paradigm: experiment where experimenter would flash an array of letters but asked for a specific row with a specific tone. Temporarily holds a limited amount of information. Creating a pic of what you"re trying to remember o o. Working with the meaning of the information: motor. Things that you do in action to remember things. George miller - magic number (the capacity of short-term memory) o o.
