1. Attention
System interrupt attracted by alternative stimuli (dog in street)
Conscious reallocation device
Attention as limited resource
Attention as bottleneck
Cocktail party effect : Colin Cherry
Filter theory: Donald Broadbent
Attenuation theory: Anne Triesman
Late selection theory: Donald MacKay (pennies)
Spotlight model: Michael Posner

6. Memory: Central to the Self
Early work of Ebbinghaus
Methodology (recall, recognition, savings)
Time course of loss
Overlearning
Serial position effect and its implications: a multi-store model of memory

10. Conclusion: a multi-store model of memory
The serial position results suggest a separation of a short term and a long term store or component of memory
But there may be more!

11. Sperling: Sensory Storage (iconic memory)
Whole vs partial report
Rapid decay
Backward masking

12. H Z R B
P D S C
K V M W

13. G T X Y
N Q D P
C M L W

14. M B W X
Q V P T
N Z Y G

15. R Y D N
V B Q Z
G L S K

16. W P G D
B Q T C
K G N V

17. Sperling exper. Whole vs Partial Report

18. Delay of tone--fast decay

20. Summary: Iconic Memory
Capacity: Very large
Duration: Very short
Transfer: Readout to STM
Loss: Phenomenon of backward masking (and its necessity!)

21. A Multi-store model of memory
Benefits and limitations
First memory: sensory store
Next: Short term memory

23. Short term memory Current contents of memory
Fundamental bottleneck in processing
Multiple interpretations
Capacity
Duration
Transfer
Loss

24. Basic Operations of STM
How things enter it
How things stay in it.
How we search for things within it.
How things leave it

25. Peterson & Peterson: Decay

26. Waugh & Norman: Interference

27. Sternberg: Memory scanning

29. STM-WM (an alternative view)
Another way of looking at it (STM vs Working Memory) (Baddeley)
The "bottleneck" issue and an example or two.
Beating the limits--the work of Chase and Ericcsson: chunks & retrieval structures.
Finally, how do things move on--elaborative rehearsal

30. Baddeley: Model of Working Memory

34. Chase, Ericcsson & Staszewski: Retrieval Structures