PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Long-Term Memory, Echoic Memory, Episodic Memory
17 Jun 2013
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Memory refers to the processes that allow us to record and later retrieve experiences and information. People with amnesia, or memory loss can discuss his childhood, teens but has forgotten some events that occurred within the two years, and has lost the ability to form new memories. Encoding refers to getting information into the system by translating it into a neural code that your brain processes. Once in the system, information must be filed away and saved. Retrieval is the way to pull information out of storage when we want to use it. Encoding, storage, and retrieval represent what our memory system does with information. Sensory memory holds incoming sensory information just long enough for it to be recognized. It is composed of different subsystems, called sensory registers, which are the initial information processors. Our visual sensory register is called the iconic store. Iconic memory stores complete information for only a fraction of a second, the image would quickly vanish.
