PSY 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Short-Term Memory, Iconic Memory, Sensory Memory
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Retrieval: reactivation or reconstruction of experiences from our memory stores, from. Encoding: process of getting information into our memory banks, sends it to long term memory. Sensory memory buys our brains a bit of extra time to process incoming sensations. It also allows us to fill in the blanks in our perceptions and see the world as an unbroken stream of events. He quickly flashed participants a display of 12 letters, with four letters arranged in three rows. The display lasted only about one-twentieth of a second, and participants had to recall as many letters within the display as they could. Sperling found that most participants could recall only four or five letters. This finding suggested to sperling that all 12 letters had an equal chance of being recalled but that no one person could recall them all. Participants had access to all 12 letters in their memories.
