Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Short-Term Memory, Sensory Memory, Computer Keyboard

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

Refers to the processes that allow us to record and later retrieve experiences and information. The advent of computers gave rise to the metaphorical comparison that the mind if code that your brain processes. Like what happens when you type on a computer keyboard a processing system that encodes, stores, and retrieves information. 1- encoding getting information into the system by translating it into a neural. 3- retrieval the ability to pull information out of storage when we want to use it. With a computer we would give a command like (cid:498)open file(cid:499) to retrieve. Once information is in the system, it must be filed away and save for future access specific information. Failure in any one of these processes can result in memory failure memory. Kim can remember anything he reads 95% retrieval of everything stored in his. Kim an read a page of a book in 10 seconds encodes incredibly fast and stores it all.