Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Blood Plasma, Elizabeth Loftus, Anterograde Amnesia

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mike Atkinson

Document Summary

Important points: cognitive model, multiple memory, forgetting, emotions & memory, eyewitness testimony. Introduction: memory: refers to the processes that allow us to record and later retrieve experiences and information. Memory as information processing: psych research on memory has rich traditions, dating back to when hermann ebbinghaus (1885) studied rate memory is forgotten and sir frances galton (1883) investigated people"s memories for personal events, encoding: Sensory memory: sensory memory: holds incoming sensory information just long enough for it to be recognized, composed of different subsystems (called sensory registers, sensory registers initial info processors. Encoding: entering information: holdings of long term memory must be organized in terms of specific codes if the info is to be available when you wish to retrieve it. Intermediate processing: concept of depth of processing can be difficult to measure. Memory as a network: memory is enhanced by elaborative rehearsal which involves forming associations between new info & other items already in memory.