PSYA01H3 Chapter 8: [*] PSYA02 - Chapter 8 {Complete, stand-alone from Text} - Joordens
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Salem witch trial (ex. of ltm), p231,1, prologue. Accused for witchcraft sentenced to execution based on assumption that situations that accusers recalled from v. long ago considered believable. Due to mem. , able to put together scene w/ supernatural occurence that happened so long ago & accurately say that this is reason that we accuse her. Memory defined, p231,4 (p231,3 skipped for not being impt) Memory: cognitive process having aspects pertaining to info: encoding, storage, retrieval. => encoding - putting stimulus info. into format that"s able to be used by memory sys. => storage - maintenance of info. in memory. => retrieval - finding info. in memory & putting it to use (active process of finding & putting stored info to use) (ex. Encoding - restaurant loc. , food type, pricing. Storage - putting in this formatted info about restaurant into memory sys. Retrieval - realling when you"re in search for where to eat. Encoding-storage-retrieval process: become aware of this in diff. ways.
