PSYC 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Implicit Memory, Sensory Memory, Explicit Memory
13 Mar 2017
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The story of h. m: the day his world stood still. H. m. was 27 years old in 1953 when he had most of this hippocampus and surrounding brain tissue removed. Operation was successful, but he could no longer form new memories. He is able to learn and perform new tasks. Improves on mirror-trace task over trials: yet no memory of doing task. Modifying the model: more in stm than rehearsal, so now called working memory, stored info, actively processes it, supports problem solving and planning, automatic processing is when some info goes straight from sensory experience to ltm. Info picked up by senses and enters sensory memory: briefly holds sensory info, sensory memory is the initial info processors: selects which details to pay attention to, send this info on to. Long-term memory: therefore effective: library of durable stored memories, storage capacity unlimited, ltm can endure for a lifetime, serial position curve the list.
