PSYCO350- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 46 pages long!)
16 Feb 2018
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Chapter 1- overview and history of memory research. Memory (cid:862)life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going. (cid:863) . Perhaps the most central aspect of human thought. Any question about human behavior, cognition, development, and nature requires an understanding of memory. Every thought, every learned response, every act of recognition is based on memory. It can be reasonably be argued that memory is the mind. (cid:863) - gray. Is the mental processes used to acquire (learn), store, or retrieve (remember) info. Memory as: a container, contents contents reflect prior experience, a process, encoding: create contents (i. e. memory traces) from experience, retrieval: accesses content. Memory processes are acts of using info in specific ways to make the info available later or to bring that info back into the current stream of processing. The mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experience.
