PSYC 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Sketchpad, Temporal Lobe, Neural Pathway
12 Dec 2015
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Three questions arise when studying memory: how does information get into memory? (encoding, how is information maintained in memory? (storage, how is information pulled back out of memory? (retrieval) Storage: involves maintaining encoded information in memory over time. Most people fail to remember things because that information wasn"t actively coded for, this can be because a person wasn"t paying much attention or passed it as insigni cant. Attention - involves focusing awareness on a narrowing range of stimuli or events. You must pay attention to something if you intend on remembering it. You must be able to screen out most of the unimportant stimuli around you to pay attention to the one stimulus you intend on remembering conversation near by. Attention acts like a lter that lters out the unimportant stimuli. There are two possibilities as to where the lter is in the nervous system.
