PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Greek Mythology, Prefrontal Cortex, Mnemonic

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Roderick Barron

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Chapter 5: the acquisition of memories and the working-memory system. There is a very specific order (phases) followed for forming a memory (in this order): Nov. 1st, 2015 into memory: acquisition phase: the process of gaining information and placing it. You need to gain, or (cid:498)acquire(cid:499) some new information: storage phase: holding the memory until the information is needed, retrieval phase. You somehow locate the information in the vast warehouse that is phase) (ex. computers) work memory and bring it into active use: the information then resides in some dormant form, normally on the. This organization fits, for example, with the way most (cid:498)electronic memories(cid:499: )nformation (cid:523)(cid:498)input(cid:499)(cid:524) is provided to a computer (cid:523)the acquisition. Likewise, we cannot separate claims about memory acquisition from claims about memory storage: how you learn (acquisition) depends heavily on what you already know (information in storage)