PSY 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Eyewitness Testimony, Pediatrics, Active Desktop

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Mark Dallas

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Memory is learning that has persisted over time through the storage and. Research on the memories extreme has helped us understand how memory identify items previously learned, as on a multiple choice test saved when learning material again works. People remember countless voices, sounds, and songs; tastes, smells, and textures; faces, places and happenings. Psychologist make memory models to help us think about how our brain forms and retrieves memories. Information processing models are analogies that compare the human memory to a computer"s operations. To remember an event we must: get information into our brain, a process called encoding, retain that information, a process called storage, later get that information back out, a process called retrieval. Our dual track brain processes many things simultaneously by means of parallel processing. We view memories as products of interconnected neural networks. Every time we learn the brains neural connections change, forming and strengthen pathways. To explain our memory-forming processes richard atkinson and richard.