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

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

Document Summary

Memory: the processes that allow us to record and later retrieve experiences and information. The cognitive revolution within north american psychology and the advent of computers ushered in a metaphor that has in uenced memory research since the. 1960"s: the mind as a processing system that encodes, stores, and retrieves memory. However, human memory is highly dynamic and cannot be fully captured by any existing information processing model. Encoding: getting information into the system by translating it into a neural code your brain processes. Once in the system, information must be led away and saved. Retrieval: the process in which information is pulled out of storage when we want to use it. The three-component model of memory proposes that memory has three major components: sensory memory, short-term memory (working memory), and long term memory. The model does not assume that each component corresponds to a speci c structure within the brain, but that they may involve interrelated neural sites.