PSYC 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Kim Peek, Long-Term Memory, Memory Span
Document Summary
Our memories are surprisingly good in some situation, and surprisingly bad in others: the paradox of memory ^ The same mechanisms that serve us well most of the time can cause us problems in others. Amazing feats of memory: ki(cid:373) peek, the (cid:396)eal (cid:862)rai(cid:374) ma(cid:374)", rajan and pi. Memory illusion, brain went beyond to fill in blank to what was on that list, adaptive but makes us prone to errors. When remembering, we actively reconstruct memories, not reproduce them. Remembering yourself taking a walk observer memory (see self as outside observer) vs. field memory (seeing world through own visual field) Sensory, short term, and long term memory. Differ in terms of span and duration. Moves from sensory to stm to ltm, and then back to stm. Brief storage of perceptual information before it is passed to short-term memory. Each sense has its own form of memory. Iconic (visual) lasts only 1 second; echoic (auditory) can last 5-10 seconds.
