Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Connectionism, Fire Engine Red, Procedural Memory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Memory processes that allow us to record and later retrieve experiences and information. Encoding getting information into the system by translating it into a neural code that your brain processes. Retrieval pulling information out of storage when we want to use it. Echoic store the auditory sensory register. Chunking combining individual items into larger units of meaning. Maintenance rehearsal simple mental repetition of information. Elaborative rehearsal focusing on the meaning of information or relating it to other things we already know. Prefrontal cortex is the seat of executive functions ; heavily involved in directing the processing of information in working memory. Serial position effect u-shaped pattern, meaning that recall is influenced by a word"s position in a series of items. Recency effect the superior recall of the most recent words; last few words have benefit of not being bumped out of short-term memory by any new information.