PSY 433 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Psychophysics, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Word Lists By Frequency

• School: University of Oregon
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 433
• Professor: Nash Unsworth

Document Summary

Individual internal representation (not identical to what happened to you what your system took in from the environment) of what has been learned: what makes up a memory, multidimensional attributes, visual, tactile, auditory, olfactory, semantic, temporal (time) Memory as process: the process that leads to remembering, acquisition/learning/encoding of information, storage and maintenance of information, retrieval of information. Memory: the process for mainlining that storage and retrieving it for expression in behavior: these work in a continuous process, encoding storage retrieval (melton 1963, this shows memory as a continuous process. Memory as a storehouse: medial-temporal lobe, memory is the place where representations are stored this is represented not only in the brain but in conceptual terms. Perspectives on memory: structuralists, focus on the structural aspects of memory, e. g. short-term vs. long term, proceduralists, the process, e. g. storage and retrieval, functionalists, the principles of memory, e. g. cue-overload, and encoding specificity.