PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Long-Term Memory, Sensory Memory, Frontal Lobe

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Sherri Atwood

Document Summary

1: getting information into memory, retaining information in memory. Encoding input from the environment gets encoded into neural/electrical code. Storage retaining information in either working or long term memory. Retrieval getting information back out of memory. Memory is learning that has persisted over time: recalling or using previously encoded and stored information, information that has been stored over time and can be retrieved over time, memory is the capacity to retain and retrieve information. Memory is a reconstructive process: reconstruction of things that have already occurred. Hippocampus binds diverse aspects of a memory at time of formation. The case of hm: most of hippocampus and all of amygdala removed. Dual track mind or processing [hm has motor memory, some spatial memory, and episodic memory] In stm tasks, areas in frontal lobes are active. Procedural memory type of long-term memory of how to perform different actions and skills. Declarative memory formation of long-term declarative memory (knowledge of factual information)