CAS PS 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Object Permanence, David Buss, Rorschach Test

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Yvonne Wakeford

Document Summary

Memory the capacity of the nervous system to acquire and retain useable skills and knowledge, allowing living organisms to benefit from experience. Encoding processing of information so that it can be stored. Storage retention of encoded representations over time that corresponds to some change in the nervous system that registers the event. Retrieval recovering information from memory stores when it is needed. Stimulus sensory memory short term memory long term memory. Memory system that very briefly stores sensory information in close to its original sensory form. There is a separate sensory-memory store for each sensory system. A letter array is shown briefly (1/20 second) A tone (high/medium/low) signals which row to report. Sensory memory persists for about 1/3 of a second and then progressively fades. Attention information that has been attended to is passed from the sensory store to the short term memory. A memory storage system that briefly holds a limited amount of information in awareness.