Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Working Memory, Prefrontal Cortex, Sketchpad

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Emilie Rivers

Document Summary

Dec 13 2pm alumni hall gym (201) Acquisition: encoding: getting info into memory, memory trace, retention (storage) Information held for a fraction of a second. Trace fades quickly, but you know its there: visual icon, auditory echo. Other registers very poor: imagine a smell of a rose, hard to remember (easier to remember picture) Material held by rehearsal: you repeat it to yourself. Rapidly lost unless we actively do something with it. Material gets old, fades away over time. Jenkins & dallenbach: you remember less when you"re awake because there is more interference, the asleep group is just decay. Visual-spatial sketchpad: images and spatial information. Central executive: directs attention, recall from ltm, and integration of input. How to get info from stm into ltm: consolidation ltp (long term , rehearsal. What evidence is there that stm & ltm exist: h. m improved on task. No memory of doing the task: consider trish.