PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Connectionism, Short-Term Memory, Long-Term Memory
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Information processing model: similar to computer processes of memory: acquisition, storage: hold information for varying amounts of time, retrieval: remembering information. Memory processes take place at same time over a large network of neural connections. Our senses from our biological and physiological senses that keeps us alive. External sensory events --(encoding) " sensory memory--(selective attention) --->short term memory---(consolidation)->long term memory. Ability to focus on subset of a stimulus from all sensory input. Sensory memory: large capacity, exact representation of information, very short in duration (4 secs. or less) Short term memory: information is held for brief periods of time while being used. Chunking: combining individual units of information into one unit, more info can be held. Ex: chunking alphabet into one code, or memorizing phone numbers. Maintenance rehearsal: reviewing information increases the likelihood of moving it into long term memory. Long term memory: information is more less permanently stores (lifetime)
