PSYCO258 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex, Short-Term Memory, Long-Term Memory
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Woman picked the wrong guy as the one who raped her from a suspect lineup it was actually committed by a guy who looked similar and was in jail. Memory isn"t like a video camera it captures the gist and fills in missing info. using existing schemas. Memory: the ability to encode (get in), store (stay in), and retrieve information (get out implicit or explicitly) Involved in learning when you learn something, it is stored in your memory. Allows us to operate in the present (using memories of the past) Allows us to plan for the future (what you"ve already done vs. what needs to be done) Tests for memories: free recall, cued recall and recognition tests. Schemas are what we expect to find in the world and help us organize the info. we receive. Mystic writing pad model: tablets retains fragments of old messages even after they are erased (freud)