PSYC 2060 Chapter : Learning Objectives Unit 2
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Educational psychology george noell, ph. d. louisiana state univ. Environmental event- see pg 45 in book: sensory registers- for all practical purposes, it can only hold our current sense experiences, you"re driving and two cars in front of you wreck. Light reflects off one car as it hits the others. You see the light and it gets to your brain and you think all the lights and excitement= car crash. Hit brakes: this data is lost in less than 1 second, designed to stop being aware of information that is not changing, unaware of our temperature; unaware of the pressure of our clothes touching us. If something your sensory registers that doesn"t feed into working memory, it is gone. Forever: working memory is the bits of information you"re holding plus the process you"re going through; acting on the info. Sensory event >> sense organs >> processing sensing registers>> short term memory; working memory.
