PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Procedural Memory, Guided Imagery, Bell Labs

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

Document Summary

Cognitive psychology 1 memory: the big picture. When we are trying to learn and remember. When we remember things we do not realize we remember. Our memories are often a distorted view of reality. Sensory memory the immediate, initial recording of sensory information in the memory system. The image that gets processed right away as you take in the sense. It registers incoming information, allowing the brain to capture for a fleeting moment a sea of faces. We only pay attention to important or novel information. We pay attention to and encode important or novel stimuli. From encoding we put stuff in short term memory. Short term memory activated memory that holds a few items briefly such as the seven digits of a phone number while dialing before the information is stored or forgotten. If we stare at the face long enough (rehearsal) or if we"re sufficiently disturbed by it (its deemed important ).