PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Sean Connery, Anterograde Amnesia, Retrograde Amnesia
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Stores: retain information in memory without using it for specific purpose. Control processes: shift information from one memory store to another. Information enters the sensory memory through vision, hearing, and other senses (stimuli) Attention (control process) selects which information will be passed on to stm. Some, but not all, information stored in stm goes through encoding (the process of storing information in the ltm system) Retrieval: process of accessing memorized information (ltm) and returning it to stm: influenced by the quality of the original encoding and the strategies used to retrieve the information. Three (3) memory states: sensory memory: accurately holds perceptual information for a very brief amount of time. Iconic memory: held for about one-half to one second (visual form) Echoic memory: held for about 5 seconds (auditory) Change blindness: illustrates the relationship between sensory memory and attention: short-term memory (stm): limited capacity and limited duration (less than a minute)
