PSY 654 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Retrograde Amnesia, Perirhinal Cortex, Sketchpad

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 654
• Professor: Benjamin Dyson

Document Summary

Memory: the processes involved in retaining, retrieving and using information about stimuli, images, events, ideas and skills after the original information is no longer present. False memory: generated an item that was not actually present. Why: because the person presented with the list of similar words, which in turn creates a sort of associative network. 3 types of memory sensory memory, short-term memory and long-term memory. Sensory memory holds all information for a fraction of a second. Shot-term memory (stm) hold about 5-7 items for about 15-30 seconds: not very long. Rehearsal helps keep the information circulating in short-term memory. Long-term memory (ltm) holds incredibly large amounts of information for incredibly long period of time and possibly indefinitely. Output is from the short-term memory alone or from long-term information placed in short-term memory. Our input was being overloaded (by the video) The site of the rehearsal capacity isn"t very large. Also couldn"t remember because there was new information coming in.