PSY100H1 Study Guide - Cognitive Dissonance, Mental Disorder, Humanistic Psychology
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Memory: the nervous systems capacity to acquire and retain usable skills and knowledge. Change blindness: the common failure to notice large changes in environment. > the processing of information so that it can be stored. > the retention of encoded representations over time that corresponds to some change in the nervous system that registers the event. > the act of recalling or remembering stored information to use it. > memory for sensory information that is stored briefly close to its original sensory form. > a limited-capacity memory system that holds information in awareness for a brief period. 9 an active processing system that keeps different types of information. 9 organizing information into meaningful units to make it easier to remember. > encodes info from the sensory systems and then filters info that is important to be stored in long-term memory. > it also retrieves info from long-term memory as needed.
