Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Short-Term Memory, Memory Consolidation, Retrograde Amnesia

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Prof

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Memory: refers to the process that allow us to record and later retrieve experiences and information. Encoding: refers to getting information into the system by translating it into a. Retrieval: involves pulling i nformation our of storage when we want to use it. Sensory memory: holds incoming sensory information just long enough for it to neural code be recognized given time. Short-term memory: holds the information that we are conscious of at any. Chunking: combining individual items into larger units of meaning. Elaborative rehearsal: focusing on the meaning of information or relating it to other things we already know. Serial position effect: recall is influenced by a word"s position in a series of items. Transfer of early words to long term memory. Recency effect: superior recall of most recent words. Effortful processing: encoding that is initiated intentionally and requires. Automatic processing: encoding that occurs without intention and requires conscious attention minimal attention.