PSYCH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Sensory Memory, Sensory System, Learning
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*learning: set of processes by which experience creates enduring changes to neural circuits, changing behavior. Sensory memories: register in our brains for incoming sensory information. Duration: short time - up to 1 or 2 seconds. Location: association cortex related to sensory system. Will become memory if it goes to short term memory. Short-term memory: information that we are aware of and thinking of. Duration: about 30 seconds unless it is rehearsed. Long-term memory: everything we know, all of the changes we made in our brain. Duration: knowing your name since you"ve learned it, walking; may last forever. Location: throughout the cortex; long-term memories are stored in regions associated with that information. If long-term memory is forgotten, it will happen early on. *process by which sensory input becomes a long-term memory. Encoding long-term memory -some information may. Long-term memory retrieval short-term memory. *using memories - our memories are not perfect! Reconsolidation: stabilizing of used memory; sometimes memory gets altered.
