PSY30400 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Richard Shiffrin
Chapter 5: Short-Term Memory and Working Memory
Introduction:
• Memory:
o the process involved in retaining, retrieving, and using information about stimuli,
images, events, ideas, and skills after the original information is no longer
present
o Active any time some past experience has an effect on the way you think or
behave now or in the future
o Has to do with the past affecting the present
• Sensory Memory:
o brief persistence of an image
o briefly seeing someone
• Short-Term Memory / Working Memory:
o information that stays in our memory for about 10 to 15 seconds if we do not
repeat it over and over again
o repeating a cell phone number in an attempt to remember it
o Contains everything you know and think about at each moment in time
• Long-Term Memory:
o responsible for storing information for long periods of time
o remembering a day in which you took a long walk in the woods with your lover
o Episodic Memories:
▪ long-term memory of experiences
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