PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Iconic Memory, Long-Term Memory, Sensory Memory
Document Summary
Encoding - set of mental operations that people perform on sensory information that is usable in the brain"s storage system. Storage - holding onto information for some period of. Retrieval - getting information that is in storage into a form that can be used. Forgetting - at some point a part of the memory can be lost; no way of retrieving it anymore; approximately 30 sec. Set of sensory registers, one for each of our senses, that serve as holding places for incoming sensory information until it can be attended to, interpreted, and encoded into short term memory. < 1 sec (if we don"t use it then it will be lost) Assessed with sperling"s full and partial report procedures. Full = participants had to try to report the entire matrix of letters. Partial = participants only had to try to report a small part of the presented letter matrix, a row indicated by an auditory cue on each trail.
