PSYCH 2H03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 20: Echoic Memory, Clive Wearing, Iconic Memory
1 Mar 2020
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Acquisition happens before a memory can take place: the process of gaining info and placing it into memory. Once info is acquired, you need to hold it in memory until info is needed (storage) Memory / remembering = the last stage (retrieval) Early ideas about memory in cognitive psych focused on processes of acquisition. Waugh and norman (1965) = one early proposal. Atkinson and shiffrin (1968) later refinements to the early model: the modal model". What the model says: when info first arrives, it is stored briefly in sensory memory: memory that holds input in raw sensory form. Iconic memory for visual inputs, echoic memory for auditory inputs: selection / interpretation moves info into short term memory, some info is hen transferred into long term (permanent storage) Need to update the model: lessening emphasis on sensory memory: doesn"t play a big role, need to replace term short term memory" with working memory" to emphasize its function.
