PSYCH 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Behaviorism, Sensory Memory, Operant Conditioning
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Memory: the study of behaviorism could explain some forms of learning, but simple conditioning could not explain complex activities, cognitive psychologists view the mind as an information processor. Studying memory: information processing models: memory, encoding. Encoding: code and put into memory, types of memory codes, acoustic, visual, semantic, visual, acoustic, semantic, stimuli must be transformed into a mental representation, stimuli represented as a memory code (or type of information) Mental representation of things you see (images) Mental code of how you mind figures out what you hear (hearing) What you see, hear, and what you think about what something means. Storage: maintain in memory, ex: a hard drive on a computer, types of long term memory, episodic. Ex: birthday, what you ate at a particular time and date: procedural. Ex: how to tie a shoe: semantic. Ex: capitalize sc, jeopardy/trivia knowledge: after information is encoded it must be stored.
