PSY 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Acrostic, Eidetic Memory, Explicit Memory
9 Dec 2015
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Memory is adaptive we need to remember what we"ve learned. Memory is also an important component of leaning: long term/relatively stable change in behavior, must remember what you"ve learned. Memory involves a 3 stage process (modal model memory): 1. Each of these stages involves 3 steps: Errors can occur at each of these steps in each of these stages: 1. Tied closely to sensation and perception: each sense has a brief period it can be perfectly recalled. Brain keeps sensory information in mind for a very brief amount of time: allows you to process information for a longer period of time, allows you to view incoming information as a whole, movies and tvs. This is the brain using sensory memory to make it all flow together. Two types that have been studied: 1. 1: people remember things that are flashed in their. Lasts about 1 second visual field: 2.
