PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Short-Term Memory, Central Processing Unit, Echoic Memory

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Stephanie Denison

Document Summary

Memory is the mind; memory plays center stage in our lives, and recollections of our past serve as the basis of our personal identity. Memory: the change within an individual, brought on by learning that can influence the individuals future behaviour: learning -> memory -> effect on future behaviour. Psychologists look at the mind as a processor of information. One core assumption of information-procession approaches is that an individual has limited mental resources in processing information. A second core assumption is that information moves through a system of stores. Information is brought into the mind by way of sensory systems, and then can be manipulated in various ways, placed into long-term storage, and retrieved when needed to solve a problem. Each sensory store is presumed to hold, very briefly, all the sensory input that enters the sensory system, whether or not the person is paying attention to that input.