PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Long-Term Memory, Peter George Peterson, Sketchpad
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Processes involved in retaining, retrieving, and using information about stimuli, images, events, ideas and skills after the original information is no longer present. Three behaviors show that memory is functioning . Retrieval of information previously learned and unconsciously stored. A measure of how much less work is required to learn information previously studied and untouched for a span of time. I stopped playing my instrument for a quarter of a year. As a result, my fingering were sloppy for the first few minutes of playing. Ability to remember 5-9 units of information. New or unusual information requires greater attention. First to record to-be-remembered information as a fleeting sensory memory. Process information into a short-term memory bin, where it is encoded through rehearsal. Information moves into long term memory for later retrieval. Holds a large amount of information for a short period of time. Sounds and words can be recalled within 3-4 second.
