PSYC401 Lecture Notes - Explicit Memory, Flashbulb Memory, Perceptual Learning
Document Summary
In order to remember you must learn something. (aquisition) To be remembered an experience must leave some record in the nervous system. (storage) Process of drawing information from storage and using it. (retrieval) response to a cue or question. Recall: a type of retrieval that requires you to produce an item from memory in encountered a stimulus previously. Recognition: a type of retrieval that requires you to judge whether you have. Acquisition: the processes of gaining new information and placing it in memory. Intentional learning: placing new information into memory in anticipation of being tested on it later. Stage theory of memory: proposes that memory acquistion could be understood as dependent on three types of memory. Info first arrives, stored breifly in sensory memory. Short term memory: place information is held while it is being worked on. Working memory: a term describing the status of thoughts in memory that are currently activated.
