PSYC 1101 Lecture Notes - Encoding Specificity Principle, Intermediate Area, Anterograde Amnesia

• School: Northeastern University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1101
• Professor: Frank Naarendorp

Document Summary

Think about the mice at mit a certain medication or an enriched environment helped them to regain seemingly lost memories. Fundamental memory processes: you have issues if one of these things isn"t working -- amnesia: 1. Storage - maintaining info, short term or long term: 3. Retrieval - having access to all this info -- recall. Info processing model = most common way of thinking about memoryinfo is processed in stages; the sensory processing/memory, short term proc/memory, and long term proc/memory: sensory memory: auditory, visual, somato-sensory, gustatory and olfactory processes. Info on this level is fleeting and stays no longer than . 5 seconds in the memory. Echoic = audio: short term memory: aka working memory. Once you pay attention to stimuli it moves to stm focus awareness on a narrow range of events. Used for solving problems from moment to moment, info is stored by rehearsal.