PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Prospective Memory, Sketchpad, Unconscious Mind
9 Dec 2013
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Memory the process that allows us to record and later retrieve experiences and information. Encoding getting information into the system by translating it into a neural code that your brain processes. One in the system, information must be filed away and saved. Retrieval a way to pull information out of storage when we want to use it. William james memory has distinct yet interacting components. Richard atkinson and richard shiffrin proposed: memory has 2 major components: 3) long term memory: model does not assume that each component corresponds to a specific structure within the brain. Rather, the components may involve interrelated neural sites, and memory researchers use these terms in a more abstract sense. Sensory memory hold incoming sensory information just long enough for it to be recognized. It is composed of different subsystems called sensory registers: are the initial information processors.
