Psychology 2035A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Free Recall, Computer Data Storage, Information Processing
13 Oct 2016
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Lecture 10 - introduction to memory & working memory. Knowing the difference between a real and a false memory can be difficult. When you elaborate on a story several times, you remember your elaboration more than the actual event. Encoding: putting things in memory (perception -> neural code, the research focus is on attentional (bottlenecks/pools) and/or processing limits. Storage: knowledge representation (short term/long term, facts vs. events, etc. , memory for procedures, facts etc. Retrieval: accessing the memory and using it again, remembering things, recalling things, using information that was stored, recognition and/or recall. Different systems have different functions (operate somewhat independently) Operate according to different laws and principles (ex. verbal memory will use verbal systems) Different degree to which they will be short/long term. Represent the same types of information in the same way. Differences come about because different cognitive processes can be applied to the stored information. Both take into account the different ways that memory operates.
