Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Procedural Memory, Sensory Memory, Connectionism

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Memory the processes that allow us to record and later retrieve experiences and information; is precious and complex. Encoding getting information into the system by translating it into a neural code that you brain processes (like a keyboard) Once in the system, information must be filed away and saved (like a hard drive) Retrieval the process of pulling information out of storage when we want to use it (like opening a file) Three components of memory: sensory memory holds incoming sensory information just long enough for it to be recognized. Composed of different subsystems called sensory registers, which are the initial information processors. Our visual sensory register is called the iconic store and the auditory sensory register is called the echoic store: short-term/working memory holds the information that we are conscious of at any given time. We can keep forming long term memories until we die and once formed they endure for up to a lifetime.