PSYC 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 31-33: Eyewitness Testimony, Sigmund Freud, Daniel Schacter

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 200
• Professor: Michael Boyes

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Introduction: memory is learning that has remained over time, information that"s stored and can be retrieved, one idea of memory is called the information processing model and takes after a computer. Encoding - how we get information into our brain. Storage - how we hold onto that information. Retrieval how we get the info back out of our brain. Like a computer"s file system: another model is called connectionism. It has the idea that memories are made up of interconnected neural networks. The theory is that memories are made in three stages: This is like an after-image if you have your eyes closed then flashing them open-and-closed again. The info goes into short-term memory where it"s encoded via rehearsal. A modified version of this 3-step theory would also include: The idea that some memories go straight to long-term memory. There is a working memory, a version of stage 2.