Psychology 2080A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Anterograde Amnesia, Retrograde Amnesia, Clive Wearing
1 Apr 2016
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The structural view: treats memory as if it is a thing" that we put somewhere and then look for when it is needed again. Difer in their capacity (how much memory they can hold) and duraion (how long they can hold a memory: sensory memory. What we choose to pay atenion to through sensory inputs will move to short- term memory. Holds the basic sensory informaion (raw data) Capacity: has an unlimited capacity (or at least very large) Sperling (1960: showed people an array of leters and when he showed them briely, they could remember about 3-5 leters out of 12, if the subjects were given a cue for which row to report, they can report. 3-4 leters out of 4: but if the cue came late, most of the leters were gone from sensory memory before they could report them.
