AP Psychology Unit Five Cognitive

short duration store for sensory infoEchoic: auditory, 3-4 secondsIconic: visual, 1/10 secondHaptic: smell, 2 seconds

unaware of it, ex: how to tie a shoe

in hippocampus, info gets lost or stored in cortex, use rehearsal or memory strategies to move to long term memory

stored in cortex, if need to remember something then hippocampus retrieves info to bring to consciousness

Each additional time you do something, performance declines because info tried to remember on first trial is interfering with new info/ old info interferes with making of new memories

New info interferes with memory of old info (new locker combo)

generalized knowledge about a situation, event, or person

Thinking about thinking

the type of intelligence that improves with time