PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Railways Act 1921, Explicit Memory, Implicit Memory
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Definition: set of related mental processes that allow us to acquire, retain and retrieve information. It comprises 3 fundamental processes, it is a dynamic mechanism and not a single process: Codification: process of transforming information in such a way that it can be introduced and retrieved by the memory system; determines what will be stored. Storage: process of retaining information in memory so that it can be used later; conserve codified information. Recovery: process of retrieving stored information, so that we have a conscious knowledge of that information; extracting stored information. Refers to the structure of memory and differ in relation to: Capacity: how much information can be stored. Duration: for how long it can be stored. Function: what is done with the information. Refers to the limits of short-term memory. When its capacity is filled in total, the new information is replaced.
