PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Anterograde Amnesia, Short-Term Memory, Retrograde Amnesia

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Russell Day

Document Summary

For 2,000 years, people thought memories were a recording device, making exact copies of info coming through our senses and storing them for later use. Memories are constructed, not recorded: combination of old and new information, memory is like cooking. Following a recipe but improvising along the way. 4 types of encoding processes: semantic encoding, visual imagery encoding, organizational encoding, survival encoding. Lobes used in each process revealed by fmri: semantic encoding- lower left frontal lobe, visual imagery encoding- occipital lobe, organizational encoding upper left frontal lobe, semantic encoding. Semantic encoding: the process of relating new information in a meaningful way to knowledge that is already stored in memory. Think about the meaning of the word (is hat a piece. Think about the sound of the word (does hat rhyme. Visual judgement- with cat: think about the appearance of words (is hat written in uppercase.