PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Clive Wearing, Iconic Memory, Long-Term Memory

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1001
• Professor: Ayca Guler- Edwards

Document Summary

Encoding, storage, retrieval: the time course of memory: Short-term memory (also know as) working memory. Memory: the study of memory falls within the realm of cognitive psychology, and to some extent, also within physiological psychology. Physiological studying the changes that occur within the brain when new information is learned (i. e. encoded into our memory). (what"s going on in the brain, the neuron) Cognitive studying the nature and function of information processing how memory works. (how does this functioning in the mind) Sometimes you will forget very little detail, because you don"t pay attention to it. Because you generally to pay attention to information if you intend to remember it. When you form a memory code for a word, you might empathize. Attention: involves focusing awareness on a narrowed range of stimuli or events. Selective how it looks, how it sounds, or what it means. It requires an attention. action is critical to everyday functioning. processing.