PSY-1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Short-Term Memory, Anterograde Amnesia, Retrograde Amnesia
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Memory: learning over time through encoding, storage and retrieval of information. Recall- retrieve information that we have already learned. Recognition- noticing something that you have already learned. Relearning- learning information again faster the second time. Storage- how we keep the information we have encoded. Retrieval- when you have to get something back out of storage. Short term memory- activated memory that briefly holds a few items. Maintenance rehearsal- repeating something to encode info into short-term memory. Long term memory-limitless storage space for information you"ve consciously attended to. Sensory memory- huge, most decays with tenths of a second if not consciously attended to. Short term memory- small, we can only remember about 7 things a time, working memory capacity reflects iq. Long term unlimited-limit to how quickly you can move information in. Effortful processing-requires conscious effort, produces explicit memories things we consciously know, example: talking. Effortful processing- chunking organizing info into familiar units.
