PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Explicit Memory, Episodic Memory, Encyclopedia

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

Document Summary

In order to retain information successfully for later use, we need to use three processes: encoding: focused attention, transforming information into a form that can be stored in, storage: physiological change to consolidate information. Consolidation- involves physiological changes that require the synthesis of protein molecules: retrieval: being able to pull up the information at a later date. Memory can be compared to information technology: it"s like data storage and retrieva l. If the process malfunctions at any of the three processes, the memory process as a whole is. We can organize the systems involved in memory into a model similar to technology systems, which we call the information-processing approach memory. disrupted. We use selective attention to decide which pieces of information we will transfer and which ones we place in the background: short-term memory. Working memory: the memory we use to function in the world, conscious cognitive activity.