PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Short-Term Memory, Explicit Memory
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Short term memory: miller"s magic number, can refer to chunks rather than single pieces of information. 970-555-1234 iclicker: considering stm capacity, which of the following would be the least likely to remember: tell me! Encoding: i am going to show you a serious of words, your job is to count the number of vowels in each word. Coffee, rock, forgiveness, exercise, umbrella, bottle, hamburger, sunlight: levels of processing. Memory models: storage, the brain has a very large storage capacity (hard to measure) Others say some things just fade away: storage is not like a library, many parts of the brain interact as we encode, store, and retrieve information, hippocampus. But still able to learn new skills (just could not remember that he could: amygdala (the brain"s almond) In limbo, between the new/older structures of the brain: survival/sophisticated. Plays a key role in releasing stress-related hormones during highly emotional experiences.
