Psychology - Processes of Memory

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    • Memory
      A process of information flowing through a system
    • Cognitive psychologists
      • Explain how information flows in mental systems
    • Encoding
      Changing the form of information as it comes in so it can be stored in the brain
    • Types of encoding
      • Mental imagery (visual)
      • Acoustic (voice)
      • Semantic (meaning)
    • Short-term memory
      Holds information you pay attention to, lasts about 18 seconds
    • Maintenance rehearsal
      Repeating information in short-term memory
    • Elaborative rehearsal
      Giving meaning to information in short-term memory
    • Types of long-term memory
      • Episodic (personal experiences)
      • Semantic (facts and meanings)
      • Procedural (skills)
    • Episodic and semantic memories use different brain regions, suggesting they are separate processes
    • HM lost ability to form new episodic and semantic memories but not procedural memories after surgery
    • Memories are often complex combinations of different memory types
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