PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Long-Term Memory, Sensory Memory, Implicit Memory

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

Document Summary

Learning: the process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviors. Classical conditioning: learning to link two stimuli in a way that helps us anticipate an event to which we have a reaction. Operant condition: changing behaviour chances in response to consequences. Cognitive learning: acquiring new behaviours and information through observation and information. Memory: the persistence of learning over time, through the storage and retrieval of information and skills. Three behaviours show that memory is functioning: recall, recognition, relearning. Stimuli are recorded by our sense and held briefly in sensory memory. Some of this information is processed into short-term memory and encoded through rehearsal. Info then moves into long-term memory where it can be retrieved later. From stimuli to short-term memory: some of the stimuli we encounter are picked up by our senses and processed by the sensory organs.