PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Classical Conditioning, Basal Ganglia, Childhood Amnesia

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

Document Summary

Memory: learning that has persisted over time, information that abs been stores and can be retrieved. Memory: recall: retrieving information previously learned, recognition: identifying items previously learned, relearning: learning something more quickly when you learn it a second or later time. To remember any event we must: encode: get info into our brain, store: retain the information, retrieval: get the info back out. Connectionism views memories as products of interconnected neural networks. Specific memories arise from particular activation patterns of these networks. Atkinson and schifrin 3-stage process to explain memory formation: we first record to be remembered information as a fleeting sensory memory, from there, info is processed into short term memory where we encode it through rehearsal. Info then moves to long term memory where it is stored for later retrieval. Research shows that short term memory is not just a stage for temporary storage.