PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Sensory Memory, Alan Baddeley, Suggestibility
12 Dec 2018
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Memory falls within the realm of cognitive psychology and also some of physiological. Physiological - studying changes that occur within the brain when new information is learned. Cognitive - studying the nature and function of information processing, how memory works. Memory is the way in which we record the past and later refer to it so that it may a ect the present. Process of memory is split into three separate stages: encoding, storage and. Taking information about our environment, and turning that into a code that our neural network can work with. The coded information is helpful in our memory system. In terms of storage we don"t have any limits to how long we can hang on to information. Refers to the active process fo locating this stored informant and making it accessible for conscious use. Di erentiated by the length of time that information is stored in each form:
