PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Short-Term Memory, Long-Term Memory, Sensory Memory

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 101
• Professor: Steven Barnes, Grace Truong

Document Summary

Can accurately remember any day from the last 30 yrs. Can memorize over 20 numbers after a single glance. Holds nonsensory info for more than a few secs but less than a minute. Type of storage that holds info for hrs days weeks or yrs. Ability to store and retrieve info over time. Process of transforming what we perceive, think and feel into an enduring memory. Process of maintaining info in memory over time. Process of bringing to mind info that has been previously encoded and. Process of bringing to mind info that has been previously encoded and stored. Type of storage that holds sensory info for a few secs or less. People could remember all letters from that row. Process of relating new info in a meaningful way to knowledge that is already store in memory. Process of storing new info by converting into mental pics. Process of categorizing info according to the relationships among a series of items.