PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7.1: Short-Term Memory, Long-Term Memory, Echoic Memory
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Stores: retain information in memory without using it for any specific purpose serve same purpose as hard drives for a comp. 3 stores are sensory memory, short term memory (stm), and long term memory (ltm) Control processes: shift information from one memory to another. Information enters sensory memory store through vision/hearing/other senses and control process called attention(selects which information will be passed on to stm) some info in stm goes through encoding(the process of storing info in the ltm system) Retrieval (brings info from ltm back into stm), happens when became aware of existing memories eg. movie seen last week. Sperling exp used fast flashing letters on screen memory was lost seconds after it gained. People can remember short term things using attention moves small info from sensory to stm memory for further processing referred to as spotlight of attention.
