Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Long-Term Memory, Echoic Memory, Sensory Memory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

Document Summary

Memory: refers to the processes that allow us to record and later retrieve experiences and information. Encoding: refers to getting information into the system by translating it into a neural code that your brain processes. Retrieval: the process to pull information out of storage when we want to use it. Encoding, storage, and retrieval represent what our memory system does with information. Memory has three major components: sensory memory, short-term working memory, and long term memory. Short-term/working memory: short-term memory: holds the information that we are conscious of at any given time, referred to as working memory since is consciously processes, codes, and. Once information leaves sensory memory, it must be represented by a code to be retained in short-term and eventually long-term memory. Patterns of movement (motor encoding: capacity and duration. Short-term memory can hold only a limited amount of information at a time. Capacity limit is 7 plus or minus 2.