PSY270H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Working Memory, Mental Rotation, Clive Wearing
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Memory: the processes involved in retaining, retrieving, and using information about stimuli, images, events, ideas, and skills after the original information is no longer present. Just about everything we do depends on remembering what we have experienced in the past. The case of clive wearing: experienced brain damage to his temporal lobe (area responsible for making new memories) now lives totally within the most recent one or two minutes of his life. Because of clive"s inability to form new memories, he constantly feels he has just become conscious for the first time. His loss of memory has robbed him of his ability to participate in life in any meaningful way, and he needs to be constantly cared for by others. Donald broadbent"s filer model proposes how people can selectively attend to one message out of many: Messages sensory memory filter detector to memory. Advantages of models: help organize what we know about an area, help suggest questions to ask.
