Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Long-Term Memory, Iconic Memory, Sensory Memory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

Document Summary

Memory refers to the processes that allow us to record and later retrieve experiences and information. In the 1960"s the mind was viewed as a processing system that encodes, stores, and retrieves information. Encoding refers to getting information into the system by translating it into a neural code that your brain processes. Once in the system, information must be filed away and saved. A way to pull information our of storage when we want to use it is called retrieval. Human memory is highly dynamic and its complexity cannot be fully captured by an existing information processing model. These things could not occur without some kind of organization. Richard atkinson proposed that memory has three major components: sensory memory, short term memory, and long term memory. Sensory memory holds incoming sensory information just long enough for it to be recognized. It is composed of different subsystems called sensory registers, which are initial information processors.