PSYC 2000 Chapter : EXAM2Chapter 6 Outline Memory
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What are the limits of each: sensory: first stage of memory; info enter the nervous system through the sensory systems. In a coffee shop you cannot listen to each convo and repeat what every one is saying; you can only focus on one: duration: last longer in iconic. Short-term memory: what is short-term memory, info held for a brief period of time while being used, ex. Parking car in morning and not remembering where it is later: selective attention: ability to focus on only one stimulus from among all sensory input, ex. In actuality: can remember 4 items + or - 1: chunking: putting things together in chunks; bits of info combined into units or chunks (985215 into 985 215, rehearsal: repeating something to your self. Recalling something and putting it in a diff order (list of animals and recall them by size: ex. He can still complete the tower of hanoi.
