PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Morris Water Navigation Task, Long-Term Memory, Clive Wearing

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

In order for something to potentially be remembered, it must be attended to in the first place. Encoding phase: information is acquired and processed into a neural code that the brain can use. Storage phase: the retention of encoded information (whether it is for a second or a lifetime) Retrieval phase: recalling or remembering the stored information when we need it. The modal memory model: (sensory input: sensory memory: memory for sensory information that lasts only a fraction of a second. We are usually not even aware of it. (attention: short term memory (working memory): memory that will remain for only about 20-30 seconds, unless you actively think about or rehearse it. Phone number (encoding) (retrieval: long-term memory: the relatively permanent storage of information differs from working memory in terms of both duration and capacity. Chunking: organizing information into meaningful units to make it easier to remember. Clive wearing: severe memory loss example; worse case of amnesia ever known.