Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Prefrontal Cortex, Sketchpad, Eyewitness Identification

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Michael Atkinson

Document Summary

Memory: the processes that allow us to record and later retrieve experience and informaion o. H. m. had most of hippocampus removed, to reduce seizures. Encoding: encode new informaion so that speciic cues can retrieve info. Sensory memory: holds incoming sensory info long enough to be recognized o. Sensory registers: takes less than a second to recognize info here. Auditory (echoic store) lasts longer than visual (iconic store) Short-term/working memory: holds informaion consciously for a certain period. Informaion must be coded before moving to ltm. Can hold between 5-9 items in stm (7 +/- 2 items) Chunking: remember in units rather than individual #"s/words. Episodic bufer: space to mix both visuo-spaial +phonological loop, to and from ltm. Long-term memory: o o o o o o o. Primacy and recency efects in sequence of words/numbers. Receny efect non-existent if asked to recall ater certain period of ime. The beter we encode new informaion, the more likely we will retrieve it.