PSYCH 1X03 Lecture 3: Psych 1X03 Memory
24 Jan 2018
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Data -stored data is identical to inputted information. Memory -stored memory includes personal details and interpretations. Cognitive psychologists study how our mental processes make us sentient beings. Memory metaphors misleading simplify memory as perfectly stored and easily retrieved. Psychologists study how memory is acquired, encoded, stored, and retrieved. One memory can act as a cue to signal another memory into consciousness. Early work on memory noted how each memory cue is linked to the memory before it. Memory models involve an encoding phase, followed by a retrieval phase. The retrieval phase uses either a recall or recognition test for memory. Recognition - judge items as new or old in response to presentation cues. Recall - write down as many words of list that was previously presented. Our ability to recall recently encoded information decreases rapidly over time. The multi-store model suggests that memory has a temporary and permanent storage.
