PSY 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Free Recall, Iconic Memory, Experience Unlimited
7 Mar 2018
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Food aversions: special learning mechanism to associate taste and smell of food in mammals with illness even when illness occurs hours after food eaten. Ns/cs + ucs (illness/nausea) ucr / cr (food aversion/repulsion) Learning involves changes in the brain that result from exposure to environmental events. The storage and retention of information and events around the world: information processing model of memory, memory stores. 3 memory stores with different functions, capacities, and durations. Sensory memory short term memory long term memory. Sensory memory: a trace of the sensory input is retained for a brief period. Short term memory (stm or working memory): attentive/conscious processing occurs here. Information can enter stm from both sensory memory and ltm. Long term memory: the stored representation of knowledge gained from previous experience. Unlimited capacity and indefinite duration: control processes. Control processes: manipulate information within or between stores. Encoding: movement of information from stm to ltm.
