PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Herpesviral Encephalitis, Sensory Memory, Mardi Gras

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: paniztavakoli

Document Summary

Information that has been stored over time. Information that can be retrieved over time: encoding: getting information into memory, storage: retaining information in memory, retrieval: recalling or using previously encoded stored information. Sensory input from the environment is recorded as fleeting sensory memory. Information is processed in short term memory. Information is encoded into long term memory for later retrieval. Processing: how information gets encoded into the memory. Automatic processing is the unconscious encoding of information about space, time, We pick up information without making a conscious effort to learn it e. g. you. Effortful processing is encoding that requires attention and conscious effort(i. e. frequency, and well-learned information automatically process to the question what did you eat for breakfast this morning? . He tried to learn(memorize) a list of nonsense syllables. The more times he rehearsed the list in one day, the less time it took to memorize the list on day two.