PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Wilder Penfield, Windsor, Ontario, Chessboard

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

The second and third questions may be surprisingly difficult. We have labs all along the 401 doing work on memory. Wilder penfield was a surgeon that stimulated brains during surgery and observed a memory phenomenon. Specifically she remembered music but couldn"t name it (also smell of burnt toast) The cassette: can be rewritten, can be recorded, and may fade over time. Encoding: perceptions, thoughts and feelings are transmitted into memory. Retrieval: bringing back (to mind) the encoded information. Other metaphors include: the computer, the photograph, the file cabinet, phonograph (sound engraved in wax), mechanical piano, hologram (ghost image) Construction : creation of a new story from an original story. Elaboration : the degree to which information is specified, described (detailed), and/or related to other memory information. Bartlett suggested that we use schema to organize information. We perceive things differently based on whether we know the schema.