PSY270H1 Lecture Notes - Visual Short-Term Memory, Frontal Lobe, Occipital Lobe
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Start with thinking of a very simple dichotomy. + building and storing knowledge and accessing the stored knowledge. With memory, building information in your brain permanent representation that you can call upon later. + have to be able to build and add knowledge to this structure. + some input goes into long term memory, but a lot of it doesn"t. Stuff goes into ltm is the stuff we spent more time on, paid more attention, more effort in. + spend more time putting things into ltm. + have a storage/capacity that makes sense of organization have to be able to put stuff into this long-term memory storage & have to be able to access it. + must be able to navigate lt store must be able to store and retrieve it when purpose matters. + processing must be flexible if information is incorrect, must be able to over-write that information.
