PSYC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Prefrontal Cortex, Amygdala
5 Nov 2018
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The nervous system s capacity to retain and retrieve skills and knowledge. Allows us to take info from experiences, store it for retrieval later. Encoding: the processing of information so that it can be stored. Storage: the retention of encoded representations over time. Consolidation: the neural process by which encoded information becomes stored in memory. Retrieval: the act of recalling or remembering stored information when it is needed. Information processing model - compares the working memory to the actions of a computer. Long-term potentiation: strengthening of a synaptic connection, making the postsynaptic neurons more easily activated by presynaptic neurons.
