PSY318H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Planarian, Episodic Memory, Fear Conditioning
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Looking at memory: all started with worms: we have been looking for molecule that will help us retain memories. The point is that search for memory molecule has been going on for a long time. Sensory memory: the incoming information comes in and it gets into your sensory memory (e. g. in class, you are in-taking information from the screen, what the prof is saying) Sight and sounds that stimulate your senses, those things contain sensory information and they are going into your sensory memory. Large capacity: you"re taking in a lot of things right now! Stm wont help much in remembering what"s going on in class--> because you want to get information into ltm. Long term memory: if you are asked things that you heard longer than 30 seconds ago, things that happened from long ago, thats when you need to access your ltm o.