PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Classical Conditioning, Henry Molaison, Generalised Tonic-Clonic Seizure
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The faculty by which the mind remembers and stores info. Get info via encoding and retain via storage. Working memory same storage all space for recent thoughts and experiences. Info can enter working memory via vision and or repeating of info using auditory rehearsal. Short term: play hand in hand with working. We can store about 7 bits of info in short term. Difference b/w working and short: working capacity reflects intelligence level, short term doesn"t. 2 sections explicit: declarative ability to consciously recall a memory and implicit: procedural the unconscious memory of skill. Devere grand mal seizures hippocampus removal couldn"t remember past memories. Attention: brief ability to focus on or manage multiple stimuli. Voluntary: requires effort, cause change in behavior, controlled, weak stimuli. Ability to focus on 1 task for a set amount of time without being distracted. Alternating: ability to shift attention quickly between tasks or activities at once.
