PSYCH207 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Donald O. Hebb, Frontal Lobe, Cognitive Psychology
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Information is held in storage for later retrieval. Encoding: information is translated into a form that other cognitive processes can use. Retrieval (the calling to mind previously stored information) Baddelely (1990) described the severe case of clive wearing, a musician who suffered brain damage caused by encephalitis and now has severe amnesia. His amnesia was so bad that be cannot remember nothing from more than a few minutes before ( a state that he attributed to having just recovered consciousness ) Is able to conduct choirs and play piano. But cannot go out alone because he would get lost and not be able to find a way back home. Cannot recognize much in photographs of familiar places. Memories of his own life are vague. Modal model of memory: information is received, processes, and stored differently for each memory. Sensory memory: store that holds incoming sensory information for very brief period of time.