PSYC 181 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Direct Comparison Test, Ingroups And Outgroups, Small Favor
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Chapters 6 (memory), 8 (motivation and emotion), and 14 (social psychology) Exam 2 study guide: compare and contrast the three types of memory. Do not forget to explain the various characteristics, subtypes, and components for each. Three types of memory: sensory, long-term, and short-term memory. Sensory memory: memory system for storing sensory info for a very short period of time, ranging from a fraction of a second to as long as three or four seconds. Visual, auditory, and other sensory stimuli constantly strike your sensory receptors, forming device called sensory register impressions you briefly hold in sensory memory in a kind of temporary storage. Eidetic memory (photographic memory) lingering mental representation, relatively rare. Echoic memory: mental representation of sound, few seconds. Short term memory (working memory): your friends are having a competition to see if you can memorize symbols of the periodic table of elements in order.
