PSY100H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Short-Term Memory, Baddeley'S Model Of Working Memory, Anterograde Amnesia

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

Memory the nervous systems capacity to acquire and retain usable skills and knowledge. Change blindness the common failure to notice large changes in environments. Encoding the processes of information so that it can be stored. Storage the retention of encoded representations over time that corresponds to some change in the nervous system that registers the event. Retrieval the act of recalling or remembering stored information to use it. Modal memory model the three stage memory system that involves sensory memory, short term memory, and long term memory. Short term memory (stm) a limited capacity memory system that holds information in awareness for brief periods. Work memory (wm) an active processing system that keeps different types of information available for current use. Chucking organizing information into meaningful units to make it easier to remember. Long term memory(ltm) the relatively permanent storage of information.