PSY 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Post-Traumatic Amnesia, Psychogenic Amnesia, Yield Sign
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Information processing: memory is similar to a computer, three key processes of information processing. Information is organized, interpreted and responded to: encoding, storage (memory-making), retrieval, encoding, organization of sensory information to be used by the nervous system, encoding can be, automatic (requires no effort, controlled process (requires attention and effort) Long-term memory: memory system involved in long term storage or info, relatively permanent and has unlimited capacity. The conditions of confabulation: confabulation, confusion of an event that happened to someone else with one that happened to you, or a belief that you remember something when it never actually happened. Recall: recall tasks: participants asked to remember previously presented info (lists, 3 widely used recall tasks, free recall-any order, serial recall-same order as presented, pair associate-cue to recall second half of pair. The tendency for recall of first and last items on a list to surpass recall items in the middle of the list.
