PSY270H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Frontal Lobe, Perseveration, Brain Damage
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Memory: processes involved in retaining, retrieving, and using information about stimuli, images, etc after the original information is no longer present. Mental time travel place you back in a situation so you feel as though you are reliving it. Long-term memory = essential for storing information, before we become aware of this stored information, must be moved back into stm. Retrieval: remembering information that is stored in long-term memory. Sensory memory: retention, for brief periods of time, of the effects of stimulation. Persistence of vision: retention of the perception of light in your mind. Film is flashed 24 times per second: person doesn"t see dark intervals between images because the persistence of vision fills in the darkness. Delayed partial report method: similar to partial report method, but there was a delay between flashing of letters and cue tone (1 second: could report only 1 letter in a row.