Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Dual-Coding Theory, Episodic Memory, Baddeley'S Model Of Working Memory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mark Holden

Document Summary

The two sensory registers are visual information (iconic store complete visual picture lasts about second) and auditory information (echoic store everything we just heard, lasts about 2 seconds). Sperling"s experiment was where he presented an array of letters for 1/20 of a second. A whole report usually got about 4. 5 out of 12, and parital report immediately was (80-90% correct), but after. Of delay had lost most of the info: information can be coded in stm by auditory (phonological) coding (people often mis-remember letters or names for similar sounding ones), visual coding, semantic coding, or motoric. Maintenance rehearsal is repeating info over and over to keep information in. Elaborative rehearsal focuses on the meaning, relating things to what you already know, keeps information in stm and way more effective for long-term retention. The capacity of short term memory is (7+/-2). Stm is also called working memory because this is where we process (work with) information.