PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Anterograde Amnesia, Memory Consolidation, Interference Theory

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

Document Summary

Information processing: computer model to understand memory as in info processing system, 3 basic required functions or stages, encoding: getting info into memory system, storage: retaining/maintaining encoded info, retrieval: getting info out of memory storage. 3 stage processing model of memory: sensory memory: Immediate recording of stimuli for a very brief duration (less than a second: fairly accurate representation of stimuli, eg. Info will be lost forever unless stored in long-term memory. Long- term memory: limitless & permanent or near permanent storehouse, occurs bcs physical changes take place in neuronal connections of the brain to store these memories for long periods of time. No time to encode info in last few seconds before sleep & unlikely to remember: eg. Spacing effect retain info better when rehearsal distributed over time. What we encode: we remember, what we encode, the mental model we constructed (not exact, three basic ways of encoding, meaning, sound.