PSYC 2120 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Availability Heuristic, Representativeness Heuristic, Stereotype
9 Feb 2018
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To make sense of the world, we count on our ability to remember events, people, and objects that we have encountered in the past. Through the use of our senses, we take in information from the world around us. Sensory processes help us to perceive the demands of the situation and engage in a certain. We are also equipped with the important ability to lay down traces of memory that allow us to sequence of behaviors that accomplishes an important goal. build a record of things that have happened in the past. Short-term memory is information and input that is currently activated. At every moment, sensory stimulation will be encoded or represented in short-term memory. is information from past experience that may or may not be currently activated. Information that is actively rehearsed or is otherwise distinctive, goal relevant, or emotionally salient gets consolidated or stored into our long-term memory for later retrieval.
