PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Connectionism, Long-Term Memory, Semantic Network
18 Oct 2016
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Three questions arise when studying memory: how does information get into memory? (encoding, how is information maintained in memory? (storage) 3. How is information pulled back out of memory? (retrieval) Storage: involves maintaining encoded information in memory over time. Most people fail to remember things because that information wasn"t actively coded for, this can be because a person wasn"t paying much attention or passed it as insignificant. Attention - involves focusing awareness on a narrowing range of stimuli or events. You must pay attention to something if you intend on remembering it. You must be able to screen out most of the unimportant stimuli around you to pay attention to the one stimulus you intend on remembering. Attention acts like a filter that filters out the unimportant stimuli. There are two possibilities as to where the filter is in the nervous system. Early, during sensory input or later after the brain as processed the meaning and significance of the input.
