PSY E111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Neural Pathway, Psy, Railways Act 1921
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To reflect and think about things that has happened in the past. Encoding: take information from the outside world and we transform it into a code that can be stored into a memory. Not everything that hits our sense organs will remain in our. In order to code information it is important to pay selective memory not everything gets coded. Storage: requires a process called consolidation attention. Consolidation is when we are creating a neural pathway to the memory this requires a physical change of the nerve cells that carry the trace to the memory. If the memory doesn"t get consolidated then the memory. Reasons for the memory getting lost/interruption in does get stored (aka the memory is lost) the consolidation process: physical or emotional trauma, if you lose consciousness, if you have had a concussion, blackouts (alcohol), intoxication memory. Retrieval: when we need the information, so we pull it out as needed.
