PSY100H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Anterograde Amnesia, Karl Lashley, Retrograde Amnesia
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Psy100 quick review chapter 7- 10, 12, 16. Memory the nervous system"s capacity to acquire and retain usable skills and knowledge. Note: attention is the ability to focus on important or relevant information. Attention is limited, and when divided among many tasks, performance suffers. You decide to listen to the conversation and block out your friend. Shadowing: receive different auditory messages but only repeat one message. Change blindness the common failure to notice large changes in environments. Auditory attention allows selective listening. Short- term memory (stm) a limited capacity memory system that holds information in awareness for a brief period. Working memory (wm) an active processing system that keeps different types of information available for current use. Memory span and chunking: memory span = wm can hold a limited amount of information. Chunking organizing information into meaningful units to make it easier to remember. Long- term memory is relatively permanent. Long- term memory (ltm) the relatively permanent storage of information.
