PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Encoding Specificity Principle, Long-Term Memory, Anterograde Amnesia

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Sherri Atwood

Document Summary

Ability to store and retrieve informaion over ime. Memories are made by combining informaion we already have with new informaion coming in: memories are constructed. Based on evoluionary theories of natural selecion, memory mechanisms that help us survive should be passed down. An experimental gave three diferent encoding tasks to paricipants (survival encoding condiion, moving encoding condiion, and pleasantness encoding condiion: survival encoding yielded beter memory, perhaps drawing from elaboraive, imagery, and organizaional encoding. The flow of informaion through the memory system. Informaion moves through several stages of memory as it gets encoded, stored, and made available for later retrieval. Storage that holds informaion for hours, days, weeks, or years; no known capacity. Storage that holds sensory informaion for a few seconds or less. Storage that holds non- sensory informaion for more than a few seconds but less than a minute; can hold about. Rehearsal: process of keeping informaion in stm by mentally repeaing it.