PSY100H1 Chapter Notes -Psych, Sensory Memory, Prefrontal Cortex
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Acquisition process of gaining info and placing it into memory. Storage hold onto acquired info in memory until info is needed. Retrieval locate info in storage and bring it into active use. Information processing is process in which mental events such as learning, remembering and deciding involves large number of discrete steps. Modal model in this modal, working memory serves as both storage and loading site for long- term memory storage/warehouse. Info reaches working memory through perception or drawn back from long-term store. Once in working memory either further process or it recycle it. Info first arrives in sensory memory, iconic-visual, echoic-audio; Working memory is functional memory, ideas or thoughts are currently activated in this space. Finding info out of long-term is effortful and slow (can fail: contens of working memory are fragile shift your thoughts to new topic, old topic ideas are lost. Long term is not connected to current focus, hence less fragile.
