PSYCH 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Iconic Memory, Working Memory

• School: Clemson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2010
• Professor: Fred Switzer

Document Summary

Steps to remembering: encoding = process of remembering information, storage = retention of information over time, retrieval = getting information out of memory. This part of the memory process is automatic, and is known as the unconscious encoding of incidental information, such as space, time, frequencies, etc. It can also include well-learned information, but this requires attention, conscious effort, and rehearsal of information (repetition of information) There are three differe(cid:374)t t(cid:455)pes of (cid:862)(cid:272)odes(cid:863) that are pro(cid:272)essed duri(cid:374)g this step, a(cid:374)d these are: semantics meanings (words, symbols, etc. , acoustic sounds (language, notes, etc. , visual pictures and images (photos, logos, etc. ) This is the second step in the process, where lots of different things get stored in lots of different places. There are two different locations that memories can be stored based on their pathways, and these are working memory, and long-term memory. This location is limited in both duration and capacity.