PSY 3377 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Frontal Lobe, Brain Damage, Animal Cognition
3 Mar 2016
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Memory it is influence of past experiences (recent and more remote) on present and future. Memory is always active; our mind (through learning) changes constantly and so is our brain involved in retaining retrieving and using info about stimuli, images, events, ideas and skills after the original info is no longer present. 2nd: delay is introduced (short in the case of short-term memory) 3rd: participants are asked to retrieve using recall, participants report back what they saw or heard using recognition participants pick what they saw from a list that contained seen (targets) and unseen items (distractors) That it is impossible to assess stm without assessing attention related mechanisms; That stm constantly interacts with long term memory knowledge. A limited number of items: because of the limited number of items that we can hold simultaneously in memory. Prevent participants from using strategies" that will maintain items consciously active.
