PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 47: Asteroid Family, Sketchpad, Episodic Memory

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jens C Pruessner

Document Summary

Some evidence says that decisions about what to attend to are made early in the perceptual process, unattended information is processed to some extent. Change blindness: the common failure to notice large changes in the environment, which shows that we can attend to a limited amount of information and that large discrepancies exist between what most people believe they see and what they actually see. Like a computer, memory"s multiple processes can be thought of as operating over time in 3 phases: Encoding phase: the processing of information, that occurs at the time of learning, so that it can be stored. Involves: sensory memory, short term memory, and long term memory. Sensory memory: memory for sensory information that is stored briefly close to its original sensory form, lasts only for a fraction of a second. Occurs when a sound or light leaves a vanishing trace on the nervous system.