Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Prefrontal Cortex, Anterograde Amnesia, Memory Consolidation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Memory: refers to the processes that allow us to record and later retrieve experiences and information. During the cognitive revolution, it was thought of the mind, as a processing system that encodes, stores, and retrieves information. Encoding: refers to getting information into the system by translating it into a neural code that the brain processes. Retrieval: a way to pull information out of storage when we need to use it. *we routinely forget and distort information, and may remember events that never actually occurred. All three components may involve interrelated neural sites, and memory research use these terms in more abstract sense: sensory memory: Sensory memory: holds incoming sensory information just long enough for it to be recognized. Sensory registers: the different subsystems which are the initial information processors. Experiment: flashed 12 letters for 1/20th of a second and participants were asked what was on the list. Results: they were able to recall only three to five letters.