PSYC 1101 Lecture Notes - Anterograde Amnesia, Confabulation, Retrograde Amnesia
31 Jan 2014
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Retrieval: sensory, short term, long term. 200- 500 msec (time exposure to stimulus lasts) Initial perception of an item. Most often encoded as visual or auditory. Retention of sensory memory is a result of short term memory. Exact duration is dependent on long term memory. Repeating a phone number again and again. Capacity of short term memory can be expanded by chunking (grouping info into larger chunks) It is hardest to remember the middle of a list. Beginning of a list - high recall. The capacity to retain and retrieve information through: First thing you do, doing something new, something novel. Spending energy on rehearsing the beginning. Recency effect - still in short term memory. Three categories of long term memory. Episodic - specific events (episodes) in your life. How you celebrated your last birthday. Terms and facts for your next psych test. Procedural - habits; stimulus- response memory. How to brush your teeth.
