Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Alan Baddeley, Short-Term Memory, Long-Term Memory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Corey Isaacs

Document Summary

Memory : process that allow us to record and later receive experience and information. The mind as a processing system that encodes, stores and receives information. Encoding - getting information into the system by translating into a neural code that your. Retrieval - the process of accessing information in long term memory. Sensory memory - holds incoming sensory information just long enough for it to be recog. Echoic stores (auditory sensory) - lasts longer than iconic. Short term/ working memory - type of memory that holds the information that we are c any given time. Working memory refers to fact that it consciously processes, codes, and works on i. Mental representations are how information is coded to be retained in short term m. When reading words, information is stored as phonological codes. Short term memory can only hold limited information. Temporary; limited amount of information your brain processes ecognized are conscious of at on information rm memory.