PSY100Y5 Lecture Notes - Confabulation, Visual Memory, Procedural Memory
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It is an active process of our interaction with the environment, taking in information (encoding) and then our biases affect or impact what we pay attention to and how we perceive that. It takes us 300 milliseconds to recognize a complex stimuli, we also scan the room looking for any anomalies. Confabulation entering information into your memory that wasn"t part of your original memory. It is part of a normal memory procedure and we do this because it makes sense. A problem with this is because you can"t tell when this is happening. Memory is the process by which we observe store and recall information. We don"t have recall memory for smell or for taste it is more recognition. Encoding (how we take information in) attention : spotlight analogy the law of human behavior is memory goes where attention flows, if we are paying good attention the likelihood of remembering is increased.
