PSYC 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Long-Term Memory, Eidetic Memory, Sensory Memory
16 Jan 2017
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Approach that makes use of modern computer science and related fields to provide models that help psychologists understand the process involved in memory. Information-processing theorist sometimes apply such terms as hardware (brain structures that are involved in memory) and software (learned memory strategies) to various aspects of the human memory system. The transformation of information into a form that can be stored in a memory. Involves keeping or maintain information in the memory. In order for encoding to take place in the brain- a process called consolidation must occur. Occurs when information is stored in memory is brought to mind. Thus, memory is a cognitive process that includes encoding, storage, and. Memory phenomenon that comes closest to the popular notion of a. When short term memory is filled to capacity, displacement can occur. In displacement each new incoming item pushes out an existing item which is then forgotten.
