PSY 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Connectionism, Long-Term Memory, Echoic Memory
Document Summary
The capacity to store and retrieve information: often analogous to information processing or a computer-based system, many different types of memory involved in processing and remembering our world, reconstructive processes. Encoding: mental representation in memory based on information processing. Storage: retention of encoded information over time. Retrieval: recovery of the stored information at a later time. Forming and retrieving memories are associated with changes in the brain: memory processes widely distributed throughout cortex depending on type, major structures involved are the cerebellum, striatum, cerebral cortex, amygdala, and hippocampus. Imaging techniques also have localized brain areas associated with memory functions. Implicit: availability of information through memory without conscious effort. Procedural: memories for performance of actions or skills. Declarative: memories of facts, rules, concepts, and events; includes semantic and episodic memory. Information-processing models: cognitive processes involve computer ideas of encoding, storing, and retrieving information. Information represented as concepts, propositions, images, or cognitive schemas.
