PSYC 2307 Lecture Notes - Statistical Significance, Semantic Memory, Hypothalamus

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2307
• Professor: Brian Tansley

Document Summary

Memory: three stages of memory, sensory memory is a brief representation of a stimulus while being processed in the sensory system (250 milliseconds, short-term memory -- working memory (visuospatial sketchpad, phonological loop) Limited capacity (7 items: brief duration (e. g. , seconds, can be lost without rehearsal, long-term memory (ltm), permanent storage (e. g. , a lifetime, consolidation: process by which rehearsal of information in stm results in transfer to. Limbic system (limbic lobe) involved in emotional behaviour and memory: components include, septal nuclei, amygdala, hypothalamus(mamillary bodies, thalamus, anterior nucleus, medial nucleus, reticular formation, epithalamus, frontal cortex, olfactory cortex, ventral striatum, organization of ltm. Flashbulb memories: episodic memory, associated with place, associated with emotion. I remember visiting the capital of of ontario : procedural memory refers to motor skills, such as playing the piano, riding a bike or skating (less affected by forgetting, theories of forgetting.