PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Long-Term Memory, Frontal Lobe, Explicit Memory

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

The persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information. Information processing models area analogies that compare human memory to a computers operations. Thus to remember any event, we must: get information into our brain called encoding, retain the information in a process called storage, later get the information back out, a process called retrieval. Like analogies, computer models have their limits. Our memories are less literal and more fragile than a computers. Moreover, most computers process information sequentially while our dual-tack brain process many things simultaneously (some of them unconsciously) To focus on this complex, simultaneous processing, one information processing model: connectionism, views memories as products of interconnected neural networks. Specific memories arise from particular activation patterns within these networks. Every time you learn something new, your brain"s neural connections change, forming and strengthening pathways that allow you to interact with and learn from your constantly changing environment.