Psychology 2990A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Cocktail Party, Long-Term Memory, Cognitive Psychology

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2990A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazelwood

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Cognitive processes influence the nature of what is learned: learning viewed as an internal mental phenomenon. Me(cid:373)o(cid:396)y: a lea(cid:396)(cid:374)e(cid:396)s(cid:859) ability to save something mentally that he or she has previously learned or the mental location where such information is saved. Storage: the process of putting new information into memory. Encoding: changing the format of new information as it is being stored in memory. Retrieval: the process of finding information previously stored in memory. Role of attention the focusing of mental processes on particular environmental stimuli. Anything in the sensory register that does not get attention disappears from the memory system. Attention has a limited capacity you can only attend to a small amount of information at any one time: cocktail party phenomenon. People can often perform two or three well learned, automatic tasks at once. The more complexity involved means that people can only attend to one thing at a time.