PSYC 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Prefrontal Cortex, Sensory Memory, Connectionism

• School: Binghamton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 111
• Professor: Lanora Duell

Document Summary

Persistence of learning over time through the encoding, storage, and retrieval of information. Being able to access the information and being able to do something like a fill- in-the-blank question o. Relearning: a way of measuring retention by measuring how much faster one relearns material that was previously learned, but forgotten o. Ebbinghaus found that the more times he practiced a list of nonsense syllables on day 1, the less time he required to relearn it on day 2. Psychologists use memory models to think and communicate about memory. Views memories as products of interconnected neural networks. First record to-be-remembered information as a fleeting sensory memory. Information that is being attended to gets encoded: we process information into short-term memory (working memory) where we encode it through rehearsal memory. Later can retrieve it which can bring it back into working. Information moves into long-term memory for later retrieval.