Psychology 1000 Lecture 8: Chapter 8

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Lynda Hutchinson

Document Summary

Memory refers to processes that allow us to record and later retrieve experiences and information. Herman ebbinghaus (1885) and sir francis galton (1883); rate which info forgotten, memories for personal events. Encoding: refers to getting information into the system by translating it into a neural code that your brain processes. E. g. keystrokes translated into code for computer to understand and process. Storage: involves retaining information over time (must be filed and saved) Retrieval: way to pull information out of storage when want to use it. We routinely forget and distort information, may remember events that never occurred. Sensory input sensory registers encoding attention working (short-term) memory; rehearsal. Sensory memory: holds incoming sensory information just long enough for it to be recognized. Fraction of a second, george sperling 1960 experiment, tone helped, but delay tone didn"t. Auditory sensory register = echoic store, lasts longer than iconic memory (complete for 2 seconds, partial after)