PSY 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Flashbulb Memory, Sensory Memory, Short-Term Memory

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

Your memory is your mind"s storehouse, the reservoir of your accumulated learning. Memory: the persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information. Flashbulb memory: a clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event. In forming memories, people must select, process, store, and retrieve information. You process information not only in the cramming you do to study in your courses, but also in the skills you learn and in your processing of countless daily events. Encoding: the processing of information into the memory system for example, by extracting meaning (get information into our brain). Retrieval: the process of getting information out of memory storage. Richard atkinson and richard shiffrin"s classic three-stages processing model of memory suggests that we form memories through three stages. Atkinson and shiffrin proposed that we first record to-be-remembered information as a fleeting sensory memory (the immediate, very brief recording of sensory information in the memory system).