PSYA01H3 Study Guide - Egocentric Bias, Cortisol, Amygdala
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Memory is the ability to store and retrieve information over time. They are the residues of those events, the enduring changes that experience makes in our brains and leaves behind when it passes. Memories are made by combining information we already have in our brains with new information that comes in through our senses. Memories are constructed, not recorded, and encoding is the process by which we transform what we perceive, think, or feel into an enduring memory. The three types of encoding processes are elaborative encoding, visual imagery encoding, and organizational encoding. The type of judgement task influenced how participants thought about each word what old information they combined with the new and had a powerful impact on their memories. It was found that those who made semantic judgements had much better memory for the words than those who had thought about how the word looked or sounded.
