Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Retrograde Amnesia, Memory Consolidation, Spreading Activation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

Document Summary

Memory process that allow to record and retrieve experience/info. Mind = processing system that encodes, stores and retrives info. Encoding getting info into system by translating into neural code that. Retrieval pull info out of storage brain processes. Sensory memory holds incoming sensory information just long enough for it to beregonized. Echoic store auditory sensory register (lasts longer than iconic. Iconic stores visual sensory register (visual sensory memory is brief) memory) Short-term/working memory short term memory holds information that we are conscious of at any given time. Working memory consciously processes codes and works on info. Memory codes info must be represented by a code to be retained in short term/long term memory (various forms ex. Phonological encoding code something by sound. Motor encoding physical actions semantic encoding focus on the meaning of a stimulus form of memory code does not correspond to form of original stimulus (ex.