PSY 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Long-Term Memory, Visual Search
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Encoding = learning: attending to info and working with info in some way. System that holds information for a brief period of time for utilization = working memory. Ex. listening to lecture and noting it down. We know that encoding and retrieval are processes, meaning that you can do things to make them better and do things to make them worse. You can encode things different, and how you encode them will determine in part how you remember them. Consolidation = harder to study, happening more in animal models than human models. Clear that sleep helps consolidate, suspect that it is also a process but we do not have much evidence: moving working memory to long term memory. Memory is a process, not a state that you are born with. Dichotic listening task- only pay attention to one message. Have memory for the message that you are attending to. Automatic resulted in better accuracy, faster rt compared to controlled.
