PSYC 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hyperthymesia, Computer Mouse, Eric Kandel

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 205
• Professor: Valerie Ann Kuhlmeier

Document Summary

Two individuals have dramatically different memories of the same event. Memory: stored representation of past experiences, cognitive psych definition- mental processes of acquiring and retaining information for later retrieval . Memory includes both the acquisition and retention of information. Contemporary research shifted from an association framework to an information. Processing model (goal of understanding how info is represented and processed during acquisition, retention and retrieval. Memory is one of the few areas of comparative cognition research that spans the entire animal kingdom: memory is measured most commonly by behavioural output. Memory is measured as behavioural change due to past experience, it is difficult to think of any cognitive process that is independent of memory. Humans develop a spatial map of their surroundings that allow them to compute current position in relationship to global landmarks: memory contributes to this process by using past experiences to update spatial computations.