Cognitive Psychology Test #2

-sensory memory
-short-term memory
-long-term memory

-blocking
-absentmindedness
-transience
-misattribution
-bias
-suggestibility
-persistence

-Blocking
-Absentmindedness
-Transience

-one of the 7 sins of memory
-type of forgetting
-reduced memory due to failing to pay attention
ex: forgetting where you put your keys or that you planned a lunch date

-one of the sins of memory
-type of forgetting
-reduced memory over time
ex: forgettting the plot of a movie you saw last year
-information has decayed

-one of the seven sins of memory
-type of forgetting
-inability to remember important information, such as failing to recall the name of seomeone you met on the steet.

-one of the 7 sins of memory
-type of distortion
-assigning a memory to a wrong source, such as falsely thinking that "Richard Schiffrin" is famous

-one of the 7 sins of memory
-type of distortion
-influence on current knowledge on our memory for past events, such as remembering our past attitudes as similiar to our current attitudes even though they have changed

-one of the 7 sins of memory
-type of distortion
-altering a memory because of misleading information, such as developing false memories for events that did not happen
example: you witness a robbery, you read things in paper and hear things from other people and you start believing that that is what you witnessed

-one of the 7 sins of memory
-type of distortion
-the resurgence of unwanted or disturbing memories that we would like to forget such as a time when we were embarassed
ex: post-traumatic stress disorder

-one of the memory systems
-encodes a raw copy of whatever it is that you experience
-doesn't translate it into any other form (no encoding or conversion)
-information is lost from sensory memory over time by decaying
-information is available in sensory memory from 250 ms
-capacity is unlimited (we can remember as much as we can pay attention to at one time, for no longer than 250 ms)
-The Modal Model
-2 types of sensory memory: iconic memory and echoic memory

-model of sensory memory
-Sperling (1960)
-whole report procedure
-partial report procedure

-procedure of the modal model of sensory memory
-people could generaly report 4-5 (33-42%) of the letters originally shown
-presented 12 letters on the screen for 50 ms and asked participants to repeat what they saw: people were very accurate when making guesses on what letters appeared and in what spot without even consciously recalling it

-procedure of the modal memory of sensory memory
-presented 12 letters for 50 ms
-asked to report all letters in row indicated by tone:
-high pitch=top row
-medium pitch= middle row
-low pitch= bottom row
-he's assuming there's a display that's in memory for 250 ms
-3.3 out 4 (82%) letters were accurately reported

-Iconic Memory
-Echoic Memory