PSYCH 120A Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Procedural Memory, Episodic Memory
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What is memory? (cid:498)the means by which we retain and draw on our past experiences to use information in the present(cid:499) Forgetting: when information is no longer accessible (cid:523) or no longer stored? (cid:524) Encoding; representation information in memory (taking in of the information) Storage: keeping/maintaining information in memory (storage of the information) Retrieval: extracting information from memory for use at a later time (pulling the information back out from memory) Primary memory: (short term memory) immediate contents of consciousness (what we are thinking about right now) effortlessly available and fleeting limited capacity. Ex. if you don"t write it down r)g(t now the information will go away. Information that you hold actively in mind on a moment to moment basis. Generally lasts less than 20 seconds (everything else is long) Sometimes the term (cid:498)stm(cid:499) is reserved fro simple information maintenance, whereas working memory (wm) is used to imply maintenance plus manipulation.
