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Iconic Memory<\/h2>\n

-Immediate sensory memory as image persistence<\/p>\n

-Ex: By looking outside, you see a nice, sunny day. If you close your eyes, there is an afterimage on your retina for a few moments.<\/p>\n

Echoic Memory<\/h2>\n

-Immediate sensory memory as auditory persistence<\/p>\n

-Ex: For a few moments, after hearing a sound, we are able to \u201chear\u201d it again in our mind\u2019s ear.<\/p>\n

Sensory Buffer PAtkinson and Shiffrin)<\/u><\/p>\n

-This is where immediate sensory memories are being held.<\/p>\n

Working Memory Por Short-Term Memory)<\/h2>\n

-The contents of your present consciousness and awareness<\/p>\n

-Ex: when you hold a thought inside your head and you\u2019re about to say it or do something with it -These memories decay rapidly and are not durable unless transferred to long-term memory<\/p>\n

Long-Term Memory<\/h2>\n

-The ability to remember things from some time ago, or that we learned more than a few minutes ago up until a lifetime ago.<\/p>\n

-Ex: you remember images in your head from your high school graduation<\/p>\n

Important Feature of Long-Term Memory: Durability<\/u><\/p>\n

-We tend to think of our long-term memories as staying with us all the time Pas being durable)<\/p>\n

Episodic Memory<\/h2>\n

-Remembering subjective or personal experiences or events you know to be true<\/p>\n

-Ex: remembering your eighth birthday party Pepisode)<\/p>\n

Semantic Memory<\/h2>\n

-Remembering information or facts<\/p>\n

-Ex: where your old house was, the capital of Canada, etc<\/p>\n

Procedural Memory<\/h2>\n

-Knowing how to do things, i.e. motor skills<\/p>\n

-Ex: remembering how to walk, how to tie your shoe or how to ride a bike, etc.<\/p>\n

Memory Storage:<\/u><\/p>\n

-Encoding<\/p>\n

-You learn different things and encode them into your brain Pan image, visual cue, auditory or semantic cue, etc)<\/p>\n

Memory Retrieval<\/u><\/p>\n

-Trying to remember something that you have originally stored away in your memory<\/p>\n

Working Memory Capacity<\/h2>\n

-Limited<\/p>\n

-The number of pieces we can juggle in short-term memory at any one time is between 5 and 9<\/p>\n

Chunking<\/h2>\n

-If there are 15 letters or numbers, it is difficult to remember them all. So, if you \u201cchunk\u201d them into pieces and focus on groups of three, it becomes more familiar and easier to remember.<\/p>\n

-Musicians do this all the time.<\/p>\n

-When reading, we tend to do this too.<\/p>\n

Nickerson and Adams: Pictures of Pennies Study<\/h2>\n

-Participants could not reliably pick out the accurate picture of the penny<\/p>\n

-Similarly, people tend to not have a good memory for exact words in a conversation, but get the \u201cgist\u201d of it.<\/p>\n

Objects in the visual world have six perceptual attributes:<\/u><\/p>\n

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  • size<\/li>\n
  • color<\/li>\n
  • location<\/li>\n
  • orientation<\/li>\n
  • luminance6) shape<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Object<\/h2>\n

    -Something that maintains its identity across changes in these attributes. -i.e. as you move an object through space, it is still the same object.<\/p>\n

    Performance of music contains seven perceptual attributes:<\/u><\/p>\n