University:
Lindsey Wilson College
Course:
PSYC 1003 | Principles of Psycholog
Academic year:

2023
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30

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8
Author:

Emily Foster

humem memory Aquiere, Store, retain, retrive information. Encoding: transforming information to be entreed & retained in the memory system. Storage: information retained in the memory that can be used later. Retrieval: information recoured from the storage that we are Gomesci Consciosly aware of it. # Stages of memory # Sensory memory Allentich Short term memory encoding retrieval Retrieval #Sensory memory # brief information • Capacity: Can hold many items of once. Duration: 3 sec for visual info & 2sec for auditory info. Types of Sensory memory Attention is the onde between Sensing mmy & waking momery Iconic memory: visual info Echoic memory: auditory info Short-term memory #The conscious processing of information allention input Sonsory momeng "werking" or short term memory So: a sensory input will be cought by sensory memory. If attention was paid, it will move to the short-term memory. #What is chunking • Corcuping small bits of information of a larger units It helps expanding working memang lead Ex: 123 456 789 instead of 123456789. Long-term memory * its all the information that passes from short-term memory to Long term memory by encoding or vice versa in retrieval. Enceding Short-term memang Retrieval Long-term memory # Automatic VS. Efortful encoding # Automatic processing & information stored automatically without any hoved of doing efforts. Es in what did you out fa luch today? • was the last time you studied? #Types of long-term memory *explicit memory Limemory with awareness (aware of, Can remember, describe in words Ex: birthday, what I ate last night). Episodic into fruation of pisodes (events).. Samantic into information about facts. general hauledge. Schal wak *Implicit memory Is a memory that but count consciously be recalled Ex. motor skills, riding a bike. * Episodic memory Is amemory tied to your own personal experiences. Ex The MARCH . the mouth of your birthdery • foods you like & foods you hate * Semantic memory * Is not tied to personal events Ex. Ideas, meanings, Concepts not related to personal experience. General lacts & definitions about the world. • what color is. a banane? • What is a cloud? • Does not depend on tying the item to your past. * Procedural memory* a memory that enables skills a person to prefann specific bunal Ex. Tying shoelace, using shift stick. Why do we forget? first, it is essential to understanel that it can occure at any memory stage 1. Encoding failure theorys Is the formation did not reach the long thom memory. 2. Retrieval fochure theory & Is mobility to locate the needed information in the bag-term memory The Problem lies in the absence of retrival Cues. 3. Storage decay theory 8. Is memory traces with time 4. Interfernce theory: newly learned materials interferes with the old ones. 11. Redradive interfamse new laming stativers with retrieved of add leaming. now laming & drival of old laming 2. Peceive indofurnce old lowning interferes with the Copacity to retrieve more recently loved mubenut. Old barang + Capacity to nhieve 5. Motivated forgeting theory& Is we weally intend to forget painful cvads. Freud wed the toim Repression to explain this Is te spree hangtids & Belings beviel in the wiension Amnesia Ls Severe memory loss Retrograde amnesia: inability to remember pod episodic inl.. shabuergrade comesinti to form new memeng cos due to hupoteampus damage

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