01:377:310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Long-Term Memory, Working Memory, Encoding Specificity Principle
11 Jan 2018
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Concept: memory storage and retrieval influence motor skill learning and performance. Memory is: the capacity that permits organisms to benefit from past experiences . Memory structure comprised of two functional systems. Memory system associated with sensory, perceptual, attentional, and short term memory processes. Involved in all situations requiring temporary use and storage of information. Function: enables people to respond to the demands of a right now situation. Critical role in decision making, problem solving, movement planning, and execution. Duration: maintains information for 20-30 seconds before losing parts of information. Capacity: can store ~ 7 items (+/- 2) Information processed to allow person to achieve action goal or goal of problem at hand. Remember instructions about how to perform a skill. How to throw a ball to another person. How to stand up from a new chair. Serves as the more permanent storage repository of information. Function: allows people to have information about specific past events as well as general knowledge.
