Psych 111 1st Edition Lecture 19Outline of Last Lecture I. Memory storageOutline of Current Lecture I. Observational Learning II. Mirror neurons III. Media Violence’ Current LectureI. Memory: Encoding a. Think about your first kiss b. Can you recall certain smaller details of the event? II. Three stage Process a. Encoding i. Convert sensory information into a form usable by brain ii. Storage 1. Holding onto information 2. Humans have 3 separate systems a. Retrieval: Getting information from storage b. Biology and encoding c. Hippocampus i. Individuals without one cannot form new memories Demonstration of encoding (in Class) III. Levels of processing theory a. Information processed according to meaning i. Remembered more efficiently For a longer period of time ii. More “deeply” we process information Better we encodeb. Improve encoding i. Elaborationii. Linking other information at the time of encoding iii. Worsening encoding 1. Interference a. Forgetting information because of competition from other material 2. Serial position effect These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.a. Tendency to remember the first and last thing in the list IV. Memory: Storage a. Three types of storage i. Sensory memory: Preserves information in its original sensory form Very brief time 1. A few seconds 2. Reasonably good capacity3. “reverse polaroid” 4. transfers information into short-term memoryii. short-term memory 1. limited capacity store 2. Maintain unrehearsed information for up to about 20 seconds up toa few minutes with rehearsal 3. capacity “magic number seven, + or – 2. 4. Chunking a. Grouping and organizing information together b. Reduces load on short-term memoryiii. Rehearsal1. Repetitively verbalizing or thinking about
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