PS102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Connectionism, Childhood Amnesia, Eidetic Memory
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Attention: you can attend to one thing at a time, not 2 or 3 we can switch our attention between things" but only attend to one at a time, multitasking is a misleading word prof or computer . Phone or the road: you select a subset of the available information, and then thoughts and memories are involved in the processing of that subset. Activities that do not involve rapid switching become boring. Models of memory: many models have been proposed over the years, most useful one has been the 3 box model, 1) sensory memory, 2) short term memory working memory , 3) long term memory, encoding/storage/retrieval. Information acoustically encoded: recall errors iften involve sound confusions rather than visual confusions. Chapter 8 - memory: people tend to use chunk in their area of expertise, can use maintenance rehearsal (repeating things over and over) to keep information in working.
