PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Anterograde Amnesia, Retrograde Amnesia, Episodic Memory
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Amnesia: a profound loss of at least one form of memory. Anterograde amnesia: the inability to form new memories for events occurring ater a brain injury. Atenion: selects which informaion will be passed on to stm. Central execuive: the control centre of working memory; it coordinates atenion and the exchange of informaion among the three storage components. Chunking: organizing smaller units of informaion into larger, more meaningful units. Consolidaion: the process of convering short-term memories into long-term memories in the brain. Control process: shits informaion from one memory store to another. Declaraive/explicit memory: memories that we are consciously aware of and that can be verbalized, including facts about the world and one"s own personal experiences. Encoding: the process of storing informaion in the ltm system. Episodic bufer: a storage component of working memory that combines the images and sounds from the other two components into coherent, story-like episode.
