PS260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Short-Term Memory, Memory Rehearsal, Perirhinal Cortex
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Chapter 6: the acquisition of memories and the working-memory system. Acquisition: the process of gaining information and placing it into memory. Storage: holding information in memory until the information is needed again. Retrieval: locating information in memory and bringing it into active use. How you learn depends on what you already know. According to the modal model, when information first arrives, it is briefly stored in sensory memory, which holds onto the input in raw sensory form. Iconic memory is for visual inputs and echoic is for auditory inputs. Process of selection and interpretation then move the information to short-term memory - the place where you hold information while you"re working on it. Some information is put into long-term memory, a much larger and more permanent storage space. Short term memory has been replaced with working memory because ideas or thoughts in this memory are active and are being worked on.
