PSYC 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Echoic Memory, Iconic Memory, Episodic Memory
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Descartes thought people are born with the knowledge they have, that they rationalize everything through rather than based on experience. Information processing - cognitivism inferring mental behaviors through mental processing. Neurobiology - biology of the nervous system strongly advocated by hebb. You could correlate behavior with activity in the brain, the brain gives rise to mental operations, that we can connect them. Popular idiom: neurons that fire together wire together . Behaviour and mental phenomena could be directly related to brain activity continuing to revolutionize psychology. Memory is the record of our past experiences the storage of information, very behavioral memory. Overview of memory technically defined as *encoding - storage - retrieval. Encoding: getting it in storage: maintenance retrieval: getting it out. Modal model of memory - implication that info flows from one type of memory to another. Briefly represented in sensory memory and if memory is selected through there, then it is technically short term memory.
