Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Henry Molaison, Bundt Cake, Air Traffic Controller

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mark Holden

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Memory: memory, set of processes that allow us to record and (later) retrieve experiences and information, seems simple but is remarkably complex . Tatiana cooley: critical to everyday functioning. Remember how to shut off alarm, route to school, what words mean, etc. Translating information into a neural code that our brain can understand. Input process: a little like how sensory neurons translate signals, in this case we translate any information, more like typing lecture material into a computer, keystrokes are translated into electrical code that the computer can understand, ex. Reading your class notes, studying for an exam: storage: Retaining information over some period of time: storage process, like hitting save on your computer, retrieval: Pulling information out of storage: output process, like opening the saved file on your computer, ex. Taking the exam, remembering course material: but, we only remember some things for a short time, while others we seem to remember forever.