PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Binge Eating, Bulimia Nervosa, Frontal Lobe

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Mark Dallas

Document Summary

Information that has been stored and can be retrieved (potentially) Encoding (acquisition: much (feature extraction) is encoded automatically (no effort, location (space), freq etc, depth of encoding. We remember semantic (meaning) coding better than visual. Words that are processed deeper are processed better: aiding encoding/memory. Visual encoding/imagery: words that are easily imagined. Types of memory: sensory memory - the senses momentarily register amazing detail. Limited contents: working/short-term mem- a few items are both noticed and encoded. Serial position effect: subjects are asked to remember a long list of items. Remember first words well - primacy effect. A means to remember long lists and passages. A mnemonic to aid mem - make up a story using each word. Chunking - acronyms - usa: long-term mem- some items are altered or lost. Must be transferred from short-term memory (consolidation) To be conscious of long term mem - Storage of new mem requires a permanent change of the brain.