APSY-UE 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Semantic Memory, Sensory Memory, Mnemonic

• School: New York University
• Department: Applied Psychology
• Course: APSY-UE 20
• Professor: Adina R Schick

Document Summary

In large part, we are what we remember. Take it for granted until something happens to it. No feelings of guilt or anger or joy. Without, everything would be a first for you, would be a stranger to even yourself. Memory is learning that has persisted over time; information that has been stored and can be retrieved. Based on a sequential process--coding--which gets information into our brain then store (retain) the information then must be able to retrieve the information (get the info out) Computers process information quickly but sequentially, the brain is a lot slower, but it is able to do a lot of things at the same time. Our memories change over time very rough interpretations of what happened and not exact copies of what happened. Automatic processing refers to unconscious encoding of incidental information. Attention is critical to the encoding of memories. Focusing awareness on a narrowed range of stimuli or events.