Psychology 2210A/B Chapter 3: Chapter 3
16 Sep 2016
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Memory: is the stored representation of past experiences: more precise definition from cognitive psychology is the mental processes of acquiring and retaining information for later retrieval . Relationship of memory to other cognitive processes hard to dissociate memory form functions such as decision making, social learning and behavioural change. Memory can facilitate spatial navigation, but cant explain it entirely. Memory contributes to this by using past experience to update spatial computations think of memory as a necessary complement to other cognitive processes: cant understand cognition if you cant understand memory. Huntingford and wright did this by selectively breeding two populations of stickleback fish, one from an environment with high predation risk and one from an environment with low predation risk. First generation offspring of the two groups, reared in lab, showed similar rates of foraging (finding food in one area of the fish tank)
