Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Critical Role, Sharpening, Anterograde Amnesia

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas-de Hoog

Document Summary

Encoding: getting info into the system by translating it into a neural code that your brain processes. Retrieval: pulling info out of storage when we want to use it. Memory: processes that allow us to record and later retrieve experiences and info. A 3 component model: sensory memory: holds incoming sensory info just long enough for it to be recognized. Also called working memory because it consciously works and processes codes. Unrehearsed info is lost in a few mins. Memory codes: once info leaves sensory memory, some type of code must represent it if it is going to be retained in short/long term memory (ie image, sound, stimulus). Are mental representations: visual encoding: from a mental image, phonological encoding: code by sound, semantic encoding: focus on meaning of a stimulus, motor encoding: code of patterns of movement. Chunking: combining individual items into larger units of meaning in order to aid in recall.