PSY 220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Temporal Lobe, Knowledge Base, Retrograde Amnesia
30 Jul 2018
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Retrograde amnesia - loss of memory for information and events occurring prior to the incident that caused the amnesia. Memory - our ability to store and later retrieve information about past events. Information processing approach - emphasizes the basic mental processes involved in attention, perception, memory, and decision-making. Atkinson and shiffrin (1968) proposed a simple information-processing framework: Sensory register - briefly (seconds, at most) retains the abundant sensory information that swirls around us. Short-term memory - holds a limited amount of information, perhaps five to seven items, for a short period of time. Long-term memory - a relatively permanent and seemingly unlimited store of information. Encode the information by getting it into the system. Consolidation - information is processed and organized in a form suitable for long-term storage. This transforms the immediate sensory-perceptual experience of an event into a long-lasting memory trace. Storage - holding information in a long-term memory store.
