PSYCH 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Anterograde Amnesia, Sensory Memory
30 Sep 2016
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Funesimagined every crevice and every molding of the various houses which surrounded him . to think is to forget a difference, to generalize, to abstract. Inability to form new memories - anterograde amnesia. People like this kept eating over and over again when told it"s lunch time several timescuz they couldn"t remember eating. Sensory input encoding (info is acquired and processed into neural code) storage (info is stored in the brain) retrieval (info is retrieved when it"s needed) Sensory input sensory memory (unattended info is lost) --attention short-term memory (unrehearsed info is lost) --encoding long-term memory (some info may be lost over time) --retrieval short-term memory --maintenance rehearsal short-term memory. Sensory memory is different from short-term memory. Sensory memory is briefer than short-termstoring just immediate things. Ex: when ur not paying attention to ur mom, and she says did you hear what i just saidyou can repeat the last few words. Without attention, memory doesn"t get going and a highlighter.
