Psychology 1000 Chapter 8, 266-284: chapter 8 - memory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Refers to the processes that allow us to record and later retrieve experiences and information. Herman ebbinghaus: studied the rate at which new information is forgotten. Investigated people"s memories for personal events: refers to getting information into the system by translating it into a neural code that your brain processes. Retrieval: way to pull information out of storage when we want to use it. We routinely forget and distort information, and may remember events that never occurred. Three component model: proposes that memory has three major components: sensory memory, short term memory, long term memory, the components may involve interrelated neural sites, and memory researchers use these terms in a more abstract sense. Holds incoming sensory information just long enough for it to be recognized. Sensory memory: the initial information processors, visual sensory register iconic store. The time course for visual sensory memory is brief: auditory sensory register echoic store.