PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 23: Procedural Memory, Echoic Memory, Iconic Memory

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Memory: persistence of learning over time through the storage + retrieval of information. Recall: measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier, as on a fill-in-the-blank test. Recognition: measure of memory in which the person need only identify items previously learned as on a multiple-choice test. Relearning: measure of memory that assess the amount of time saved when learning material for a second time. Our recognition memory is impressively quick + vast. Overlearning of verbal information increases retention, especially when practice is distributed over time. Informational processing models analogies that compare human memory to a computer"s operations. Encoding: processing of info into the memory system for example, by extracting meaning. Retrieval: process of getting information out of memory storage. We process things simultaneously, not sequentially like a computer parallel processing. To focus on complex simultaneous processing, connectionism views memories as products of interconnected neural networks.