PSYB65H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Echoic Memory, Iconic Memory, Sensory Memory
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Learning is relatively permanent change in behavior as a function of experience: it"s when an organism demonstrate a change in behavior as a result of experience. Learning and memory is called experience-dependent behavior : these studied are mostly inferential, it"s not very possible to distinct between memory and learning since they both depend critically on each other. The best division of memory and learning: learning: concerned with attending to the info and storing it for later use. [consolidation: memory: concerned with retrieving the info from where it was stored [retrieval] Without any of these steps, we won"t have memory: forgetting might actually serve an important function in your brain. Memory requires info that is fathered by the senses to perceive and encode. Turning on the light and staring at it, then quickly turning it off, you"ll still be able to see the light for a brief moment this is known as sensory memory.
