PSYCH101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Attention Seeking, Medical Model, Bipolar Disorder

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Steve Spencer

Document Summary

Stores: retain informaion in memory without using it for any speciic purpose: are like hard drives of a computer. Control processes: shit informaion from one memory store to another. Model consists of three stores: sensory memory, short-term memory and long-term memory. Informaion enters the sensory memory store through simulus, and the control process called atenion: selects which informaion will be passed on to stm, some but not all goes through encoding: the process of storing informaion in the ltm system. Stm; this happens when you are aware of exising memories, such as remembering a movie from last week, Sensory memory: is a memory store that accurately holds perceptual informaion for a very brief amount of ime: iconic memory: is held for about a second, echoic memory: is held for longer, but sill about 5 seconds. Atenion allows us to move informaion from our sensory into stm for further processing.