Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Episodic Memory, Sensory Memory, Prefrontal Cortex

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: John Campbell

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Memory: refers to the processes that allow us to record and later retrieve experiences and information, kim peak and daniel tammet. Involves all three of these process: failure in any one of these processes can result in memory failure. Memory kim peak and daniel tammet: kim is able to read extremely fast (he excelled in all three processes, eidetic memory, daniel is able to encode things in an exceptional way using his synaesthesia. Invented an overall organizational scheme to aid his memory. It is very adaptive for us to encode and remember items related to survival. Storage: associative network: a massive network of associated ideas and concepts, each concept or unit of info is represented by a node somewhat akin to each knot in a huge fishing net. If you"re happy you"re more likely to recall positive memories. If you"re in a bad mood, you"re more likely to recall negative memories.