PS102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Hallelujah, Forgetting Curve, Dry Cleaning
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Memory is the faculty for recalling past events and past learning. Encoding: getting information into memory in the first place. Retrieval: recapturing memories when we need them e. g. you attend a concert: you may transform the sights and sounds produced by the performing band into a kind of memory code and record them in your brain. This information then remains stored in the brain until you retrieve it at later times. Working memory: visuospatial sketchpad, phonological loop, episodic buffer, central exec. Psychologists have developed 2 models of explanation. View of memory suggesting that information moves among 3 memory stores (sensory, short term/working, long term) during encoding, storage, and retrieval. When we first confront a stimulus; our brain retains a sensory image. Sensory memories help us to keep items that we have experienced briefly a little longer. Can only hold a handful of things at once. Experimental cognitive psychologists further divided short-term memory into 2 related process:
