PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Episodic Memory, Iconic Memory, Echoic Memory

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jill L Atkinson

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Memory is way less intuitive then it seems. The more times we see something the better we should know it not true . Are there maples leaves on the front. Most likely can"t answer all these questions. Wilder penfield stimulated brans during surgery, observed a memory phenomenon. Audio cassette retains information like a record does that memory can be written over. Filing cabinet files can be filed but then lost or misplaces. Pictures: contain a lot of detail that we can look back on after the moment it was taken. Hard drive you have a large capacity that you can go back and look at but can make new files. There is an encoding storage and retrieval faze. When you say super market we think some things. Chunking: pairing groups of things together to be able to remember things. Because the layout is a basic beginning of a chess game and they know chess.