PSYC 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Free Recall, Amygdala, Seal Hunting

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 213
• Professor: Signy Sheldon

Document Summary

We don"t recall details if they aren"t important. Memory provides essential pieces to many mental processes. Some aspect of memory is involved in everything you do. Think about what would happen if you had no memory . This class: memory processes and systems a short introduction, remembering in the real world, flashbulb memories, consolidation and reconsolidation, schemas and false memories. Memory processes and the questions we can ask. Retrieval outputting or recovering stored information. Sensory memory: a fraction of a second. Iconic memory holds visual information very briefly, fading within milliseconds: responsible for persistence of vision. Oh, 8:30 : you hear the question after asking to repeat it. If you pay attention to sensory information, it can enter short term memory before entering long term memory. The capacity is about 7 2 items: this capacity can increase by chunking information, attend/maintain information via rehearsal.