01:830:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Working Memory, Recognition Memory, Hindsight Bias

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Sarah Carton

Document Summary

Module 12: memory: encoding, storage & retrieval, and false memory. It is an information-processing system that works constructively to encode, store, & retrieve information. Cognitive and neural mechanisms that process, encode, and store the information we experience and learn, which allows us to retrieve it later. Metaphors for memory: human memory is not like a video recorder. It is malleable, it"s an interpretive system, much like an artistic work: reconstructive process, subjective, unique perception of events information undergoes systematic changes as it is processed. On which attention is focused in which we are interested that arouses us emotionally that fits with our previous experiences that we rehearse. Each of the three memory stages encodes and stores memories in a different way, but all three work together to transform sensory experience into a lasting record that has a pattern of meaning.