PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Karl Lashley, Eyewitness Testimony, Antithesis

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Clayton Dickson

Document Summary

Memory: cognitive process of encoding, storing and retrieving information. Physiological/literal: what are the brains processes contributing to memory: 1) modal model of mind. Sensory, short term (working), long term memory: 2) long term memory. Encoding, retrieval, forgetting: 3) neurobiology of memory. History, neural plasticity and behavioral adaptively, medial. Modal model of mind temporal lobe: three serially related memory stores that differ in function, capacity and duration, control processes- control movement of information within and between memory stores, maintenance rehearsal. Sensory input sensory memory attention working or short term memory encoding retrieval long term memory. Sensory memory store: function holds information long enough to be processes for basic physical characteristics, capacity large. Can hold many (infinite?) items at once: duration very brief. 2-5 sec for auditory info: based on modality: Sensory memory forms automatically, without attention or interpretation. Attention is needed to transfer information: sensory input sensory memory attention working or short term memory, function conscious processing of information.