PSYCO258 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Artificial Neural Network, Frontal Lobe, Perseveration
24 Jan 2017
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Memory: process involved in retaining, retrieving and using information about stimuli, images, events, ideas, and skills after the original information is no longer present. Memory is active any time some past experience has an effect on the way you think or behave now or in the future. When something is presented briefly, a face illuminated by a light, your perception continues for a fraction of a second in the dark. This brief persistence of the image, which is one of the things that makes it possible to perceive movies is called sensory memory. Information that stays in our memory for brief periods (10-15 se(cid:272)o(cid:374)ds) if (cid:449)e do(cid:374)"t repeat it is called short term memory or working memory. Long term memory stores information for long periods of time which can extend from minutes to a lifetime. Atkinson and shiffrin: modal model of memory: places sensory and short-term memory at the beginning of the process of memory.
