Psychology 1000 Lecture 8: Chapter 8 – Memory

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

Document Summary

The process that allows us to record and later retrieve experiences and information. Like what happened when you type on a computer keyboard: storage retaining information over time. Once info is in the system it must be filed away and saved for future access: retrieval ability to pull info out of storage when we want to use it. With a computer we would give a command like open file to retrieve a specific document. Involves all three of these processes: encoding, storage, retrieval failure. Failure in any one of these processes can result in memory. Daniel can recite thousands of numbers from the value of pi. Brain man has 95% retention rate for anything he reads. Dr. thompson: psychologist who studied (ironically) human. Accused of sexual assault, brought in for questioning. Matched perfectly with the victims description of the predator. Alibi: doing a live tv interview on how to better remember.