PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Alan Baddeley, Long-Term Memory, Sensory Memory
Document Summary
Memory processes that allow us to record and later retrieve experiences and information. The mind as a processing system that encodes, stores and retrieves information. Encoding getting information into the system by translating into a neural code that your brain processes. Retrieval the process of accessing information in long term memory. Three major components of memory: sensory memory holds incoming sensory information just long enough for it to be recognized, composed of sensory registers (initial info processors): Echoic store (auditory sensory) lasts longer than iconic: short-term/working memory type of memory that holds the information that we are conscious of at any given time. A mental work place: working memory refers to fact that it consciously processes, codes, and works on information, mental representations are how information is coded to be retained in short term memory. When reading words, information is stored as phonological codes: short term memory can only hold limited information.
