PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Retrograde Amnesia, Frontal Lobe, Anterograde Amnesia

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 105
• Professor: Kristin Vickers

Document Summary

Accurately but briefly registers sensory information before it fades or moves onto short- term memory. Iconic - a fast-decaying store of visual information. Echoic - a fast-decaying store of auditory information. Place where information is kept for a few seconds but less than a minute. Rehearsal - process of keeping information in short-term memory by mentally repeating in. George miller believed the capacity of stm was 7 plus or minus 2. Chunking - combining small pieces of information into larger clusters or chunks that are more easily held in short-term memory. Allows more information to be managed in stm. Information acquired during an experience that guides present thought and action. Multiple forms of long-term memory that differ in the brain structures supporting them. Various forms of ltm fall into two general categories. Explicit memory - information that is consciously recollected, such as facts, ideas, or events.