Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sensory Memory, Long-Term Memory, Prospective Memory

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

Document Summary

Memory: processes that allow us to record and later retrieve experiences and information. The mind is a processing system that encodes, stores and retrieves information. Encoding: getting information into the system by translating it into a neural code that your brain processes. Retrieval: pulling information out of storage when we want to use it. We routinely forget and distort information, and may remember events that never occurred. Human memory is dynamic and its complexity can not be fully captured by any existing information-processing model. Proposes that memory has three major components: sensory memory, short-term memory (working memory, long-term memory. Model does not assume that each component corresponds to a specific structure within the brain, rather the components involve interrelated neural sites. Holds incoming sensory information just long enough for it to be recognized. Subsystems: sensory registers: initial information processors, iconic store: visual sensory register, echoic store: auditory sensory register.