PY 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Procedural Memory, Semantic Memory, Source Amnesia

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PY 101
• Professor: Natalie Dautovich

Document Summary

" s capacity to acquire and retain usable skills and. Memory is the nervous system"s capacity to acquire and retain skills and knowledge. Enables organisms to take information from experiences and store it for retrieval later. The encoding phase occurs at the time of learning, as information is acquired by being encoded. The storage phase is the retention of the coded representation. Retrieval consists of reaching into memory storage to find and bring to mind a previously encoded and stored memory when it is needed. Equipotentiality- memory is distributed throughout the brain rather than confined to any specific location. Consolidation- neural connections that support memory become stronger, and new synapses are constructed. Reconsolidation- once memories are activated, they must be consolidated again to be stored back in memory. Parallel processing- systems all process information at the same time. We can attend selectively to one feature by effectively blocking the further processing of the others.