PSYCH 9B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Psych, Railways Act 1921, Endel Tulving
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Changes in the brain that results from past experience and influence the way we think, feel or behave. Critical to virtually all aspects of our lives. In order to remember information, need to: How all of this occurs often framed in terms of three systems of memory. Impressions of sensory information that persist after the original stimulus has ended. Full report condition: participants report @ 3- 4 letters but know they saw more letters than that. Participants retain most or all of the items displayed in a visual sensory register. Consciously holding of information in storage or current awareness. But, how that 7 defined can vary. Chunking: grouping information in meaningful ways to hold more in working memory. Grouping information in meaningful ways allows one to hold more in working memory. How individuals group information together is affected by knowledge. With expertise, can group information more meaningfully and. Experimental studies of how information gets in to memory.
