PSYCH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Retrograde Amnesia, Iconic Memory, Working Memory
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Wednesday 10/4/17: memory is the ability to store and retrieve information over time, memories are constructed, not recorder. Encoding: three types, semantic encoding, process of relating new info in a meaningful way to knowledge already stored in memory. Levels of processing: participants saw series of words, made three types of yes/no judgement: semantic (meaning, rhyme, case, then recognition tested. Lower left frontal lobe: visual encoding, process of storing new info by converting it into mental pictures, organization encoding, process of categorizing info according to the relationship among a series of items. Encoding of survival-related information: memory mechanisms that help us to survive and reproduce should be passed down. Storage: three types, sensory memory, type of storage that holds sensory info for a few seconds or less, briefest form of memory storage, very brief af. Letter experiment: participants recall fewer than half, new experiment: sound tone indicating row after letters disappear; participants report row indicated by tone, patients remembered.
