Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Long-Term Memory, Sensory Memory, Daniel Tammet

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

Document Summary

Memory-refers to the process that allow us to record and later retrieve experiences and information. Like what happens when you type on a computer keyboard. Your keystrokes are translated into an electrical code that the computer can understand. Information has to be meaningful to move on to next step: storage retaining information over time. Once information is in the system it must be filed away and saved for future access: retrieval the ability to pull information out of storage when we want to use it. With a computer we would give a command like open file to retrieve specific information. Involves all 3 process: encoding, storage and retrieval. Failure in any one of these process can result in memory failure. Dr. thompson: psychologist who studied (ironically) human memory. Accused of sexual assault and brought in for questioning. Alibi: doing a live tv interview on how to better remember faces. Victim had watched the interview just prior to incident.