PSYB57H3 Chapter 5: ch.5.docx
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Ch. 5: the acquisition of memories an the working-memory system. Acquisition is the processing getting information and placing it into memory. After acquiring this info you need to hold it in memory until the information is needed. You can locate information- your memory and bring into active use which is called retrieval. What is good learning depends on how memory is to be used later on, so that good preparation for one kind of use may be poor preparation for a different kind of uses. Cognitive psychology guided by a perspective known as information processing which is when complex mental events such as learning, remembering, and deciding actually involve a large number of discrete steps. It occurs one by one each with its own characteristics and providing as its output the input to the next step in the sequence. Information was perceived and moved into memory storage which is the process of information acquisition.
