PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Short-Term Memory, Information Processing, Spoken Word

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2AA3
• Professor: Jennifer Ostovich

Document Summary

Information processing model: starts with sensory input (smell, hearing, touch, taste, goes to sensory store, all information lost in 0. 5 3 seconds. If you attend to the input, shift it to short term & working memory: unrehearsed information lost in 10 15 seconds, only stayed if it was rehearsed. Information stored permanently in long term memory: only if working memory is used to transition it into long term memory. If you recognize it as a word, you bring it into short term memory. Processing a new word (example of information processing model: spoken word goes into the sensory store (auditory register, then you rehearse it for a bit to keep it. If you want to understand it you use the long-term memory to help process it. Information needed to comprehend the new word from the long-term memory: can get techniques to help process the new word from the long-term memory.