Cognitive PsychologyMemory

• Sensory memory

• Short-term memory

• Long-term memory

Acoustic sensory store is called:

Echoic

Visual sensory memory is called:

Iconic

Its duration is about 200 milliseconds

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Short-Term Memory

Short Term memory is limited in at least 2 ways

1) duration (about 20 sec.)

2) capasity (about 7 chunks)

How Big is a Chunk ?

Types of Long Term Memory

Declarative Memory (explicit)

Semantic (facts)

Episodic (events)

Procedural Memory (implicit)

Motor and Cognitive Skills

Conditioned responses