PSYA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Amygdala, Explicit Memory, Retrograde Amnesia
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Elaborative encoding the process of actively relating new information to knowledge that is already in memory. Visual imagery encoding the process of storing new information by converting it into mental pictures. Visual imagery encoding does some of the same things that elaborative encoding does: when you create as visual image, you relate incoming information to knowledge already in memory. Visual imagery encoding activates visual processing regions in the occipital lobe, which suggests that people actually enlist the visual system when forming memories based on mental images. The process of categorizing information according to the relationships among a series of items. A type of storage that holds sensory information for a few seconds or less. Echoic memory a fast-decaying store of visual information a fast-decaying store of auditory information. Short-term storage and working memory short-term memory than a minute a type of storage that holds nonsensory information for more than a few seconds but less.
