PSYC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Temporal Lobe, Mental Disorder, Sleep Deprivation

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: James Chrobak

Document Summary

There are two types of memories: working/short-term memory and long term memory. Long-term memory: pulling back information from old memories. There was a memory model that was developed by two psychologists in 1968 interested in information processing. Sensory input -> sensory registers (these are some place in which sensory inputs inhinge upon the mind, they store brief information upon the mind) Two types of processing: unconscious pre-attentitive processing and volitional. Attention, both of these relate to short term memory. Encoding is going from short term memory into long term memory. Long term to short term memory is when you can retrieve that memory from long term to short term. The model shows how/what operations/calculations in memory take place. The model conceptualizes information stored in places such as registers, memory stores. Long term memories can undergo consolidation, making memory more permanent. Control processes (ex. attention, retrieval, rehearsal, sensory input) are operations on information (alterations of information in a place).