PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Anterograde Amnesia, Sensory Memory, Mnemonic

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Megan Mc Carthy

Document Summary

Stores: retaining information without using it for any specific purpose (sensory, short term, long term) Control processes: shifts information (can be rehearsed, encoded, and retrieved between stm/ltm) from one memory to another. Sensory memory: holds perceptual information for a brief amount of time. Short term memory: limited capacity and duration. Long term memory: holds information for extended amounts of time (is organized) Chunking: organizing smaller units of information into more meaningful units. Model of short term remembering with components to store information for short amount of time. Phonological loop: storage component of working memory that depends on sounds and rehearsal. Visuo-spatial sketchpad: storage component of working memory that depends on images and layouts. Episodic buffer: storage component of working memory that combines phonological and visuo-spatial components. Central executive: control centre of working memory that coordinates attention & information exchange among the 3 storage components. Declarative/explicit memories: consciously aware of and can be verbalized.