PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Eyewitness Testimony, Method Of Loci, Flowchart
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Attention - process of taking memory from sensory store and into working memory: limited, not everything in sensory store makes it to working memory. Inattentional blindness change blindness - missing something you are not paying attention to: benefits: Limits our cognitive processes to critical information so we are not overwhelmed and can prioritize: but can have devastating consequences in certain situations. Sensory information we are not consciously thinking about can influence our behavior: ex. subliminal influence, priming, automatic processing. Cw had anterograde and retrograde amnesia: only has less than 30 second memory, as he answers questions, he forgets the question. Long term implicit classical conditioning - adopting emotional responses. Controlled - thinking about intention ahead of time. How information gets encoded into ltm: elaboration (semantic encoding) Memory palace technique - visualize a familiar place, and associate memories with locations in familiar place.
