PSYB65H3 Chapter 7: Chapter 7

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYB65H3
• Professor: Ted Petit

Document Summary

Many contradictory features of memory, therefore it"s not a unitary phenomenon permanent & erasable, limited & unlimited capacity, conscious & unconscious, duration of a few second & lifetime. Indeed, there is the existence of multiple memory systems to account for these apparent discrepancies in how we describe memory. Memory must be defined in terms of learning. Studies of learning & memory are inferential we observe behaviour and infer that it"s a result of learning and remembering. Distinction: learning: involves attending to the information (encoding) and storing it for later, memory is concerned with retrieving the info from where it was stored (retrieval) in use (consolidation) the brain, encoding --> consolidation --> retrieval. Impairment in encoding, consolidation or retrieval = impairment in function, and its hard to tell whether problem is from learning or failing to remember. Memory common analogy to computer/filing cabinets not exactly! Short term sensory memories are called either iconic memory (visually based) or echoic memory (sound-based)