PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Disease, Amnesia, Interference Theory
1 Nov 2016
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Memory is the faculty for recalling past events and past learning. Encoding- getting information into memory in the first place. Retrieval- recapturing memories when we need them. Sensory memory- holds sensory information for about 1/2 seconds (visual) and 2-4 seconds (auditory). Working memory- holds information temporarily for analysis for up to 30 seconds without rehearsal and is limited to 5-9 items. Long-term memory- holds information permanently and the capacity is unlimited. Parallel distributed- processing (pdp)- holds that newly encountered pieces o information immediately join with. Encoding requires attention which means we need to focus on or notice the information. Automatic processing is encoding of information with little conscious awareness or effort. We use this processing to encode many kinds of information. Effortful processing is encoding of information through careful attention and conscious effort. In either of these processes, you need to pay attention. The attention is less apparent in the automatic processing but it is still required in it.
