PSY 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Retrograde Amnesia, Anterograde Amnesia, Long-Term Memory
9 Dec 2015
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Encoding: getting information in, you can"t get any information into your memory without this encoding process. Storage: retaining information: sensory memory where we use our sense (vision, hearing, etc. ) in order to retain information. First step is to use our sense to retain the information. Information that is stored that regards things like facts, experiences, skills, Serial position effect - recall accuracy varies as a function of an items position in a study list. Recall accuracy varied with the items position on this list. Primacy effect the tendency to remember things at the beginning of a list. (long term memory been encoded after your rehearsed it) Recency effect recent words, the tendency to remember things at the end of a list. (short term memory: this effects both short term and long term memory. This happens if we don"t use the information that we have encoded.
