PSYC 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Middle Temporal Gyrus, Prospective Memory, Convenience Store

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1001
• Professor: Vessela Stamenova

Document Summary

Learning: a change in an organism"s behaviour as a result of experience. Memory: the ability to recall or recognize previous experience. Memory trace: a mental representation of a previous experience. Memory: the cognitive processes of encoding, storing, and retrieving memory. Encoding: the processing of information into the memory system. Storage: the retention of recorded information over time. Retrieval: the process of getting information out of memory storage. Event (sensory input) > sensory memory (attention & awareness needed/encoding) > stm (encoding/retrieving) >< ltm. 9 letters shown for 1/20th of a second. Partial report: better performance: dependent on delay between stimulus and tone, also dependent on the interval, high tone (bcxy), medium tone (nfrw), low tone (tzkd) Fleeting photographic memory iconic memory: sensory memory (visual-iconic, auditory-echoic) > short-term memory >long-term memory. Retention of small amounts of material over a period of a few seconds. We attend to a fraction of the information in our environment and commit it to stm.