PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Mental Model, Habituation, Long-Term Memory
10 Apr 2017
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The brain is a powerful computer with separate types of memory in different brain structures. Essentially a computer: codes information, stores information, uses information, and produces an output. Sensory, short term, and long term memory. Differ in terms of span and duration. Moves from sensory to stm to ltm, and then back to stm. Most likely to remember things or for them to get into short term/long term if we pay attention. If something isn"t very important you won"t remember it. Each sense has its own form of sensory. Last about one second and then it"s gone. Memory system that retains information for limited durations. We can only hold so much in our working short term memory. When learning new information hampers something previously learned. Learning how to snowboard after you"ve been skiing for you whole life and then going back to skiing ruining old information: proactive interference. When earlier learning gets in the way of learning something new.
