PSYC 2000 Chapter : Ch 6 Lecture Notes
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Information more deeply processed processed according to meaning, rather than sound or physical characteristics will be remembered more efficiently and. External sensory event encoding sensory memory (all info is lost within seconds) selective attention stm (unrehearsed info is lost within 15-30 seconds) consolidation ltm (info is retained indefinitely although some info may be difficult to retrieve) retrieval stm for a longer period of time. How deeply you process something to make it a memory: level-of-processing model: Sensory memory: first stage of memory; information enters the nervous system through the sensory systems. Iconic memory: visual sensory memory, lasting only a fraction of a second. Capacity: everything that can be seen at one time: eidetic imagery: the (rare) ability to access a visual memory for thirty seconds or more, echoic memory: the brief memory of something a person has just heard. Capacity: limited to what can be heard at any one moment and smaller than the capacity of iconic memory.
