PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Episodic Memory, Baddeley'S Model Of Working Memory, Semantic Network

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

Document Summary

We focus awareness on a narrow range of stimuli and filter out what is irrelevant. A higher cognitive load moves the placement of the filter forward in the process. Information must be attended to in order to be encoded. Memory is a reconstructive process (computer metaphor). You need to build it each time you recall it, adding or excluding or altering details! Forgetting is a breakdown of the three things above. There is episodic (past events) and semantic (past information) memory. The episodic memories you use the most often are the least accurate they change each time you construct them so your confidence in them grows but they"re correctness diminishes. Encoding can be broken up into two kinds: Active (complex info encoded with effort: massed practise means learning proceeds over one long session, spaced practise means learning is broken up into many short sessions over a longer period of time.