PSY270H1 Chapter 5: Chapter 5
9
PSY270H1 Full Course Notes
Verified Note
9 documents
Document Summary
3 common operations of memory: encoding, storage, retrieval: encoding: transform sensory data into a form of mental representation, storage: keep encoded information in memory, retrieval: pull or use information stored in memory. Implicit versus explicit memory tasks: explicit memory: participants engage in conscious recollection. Recall or recognize words, facts, pictures from particular prior set of items. Implicit memory: use information but are not consciously aware that we are doing so. Infants and older adults often tend to have relatively poor explicit memory but implicit memory that is comparable to young adults: priming: facilitation of your ability to utilize missing information. Sensory store: the initial repository of much information that eventually enters short- and long-term stores. Long-term store: hold information we need to get us by in our day to day lives ie. names, schedules, where we keep things. Limit and capacity is unknown: permastore: refers to very long-term storage of information, such as knowledge of foreign language.
