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  • September 21, 2024
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Chapter 7: Human Memory
 Psychologists study the workings on memory and have had to deal with 3 enduring questions
 How does information get into memory?
 How is information maintained in memory?
 How is information pulled back out of memory?
 These 3 questions correspond to 3 key processes involved in memory:




Storage:
Encoding: Retrieval:
Involves
involves forming maintaining involves
a memory code. encoded recovering
It requires information in information from
attention memory over memory stores
time.

, Encoding: getting information into memory
 When you are often introduced to people you are often busy assessing them and thinking about what you are
going to say to them.
 Encoding: involves forming a memory code from some stimulus.
 Your attention is diverted, and names go in one ear and out of the other.
 You don’t remember them because they were never encoded for storage.
 Encoding is an IMPORTANT process for memory.
 Memory is negatively affected by inattetion.
The role of attention
 Attention: involves focussing awareness on a narrow range of stimuli or events.
 Psychologists routinely refer to it “selective attention”
 Attention is a selection of input.
 Selective attention is critical to everyday functioning.
 If attention were equally distributed among stimulus input, life would be CHAOS.
 We need to filter out potential stimulation around us.
 Divided attention can have a negative effect on the performance of variety of tasks, especially when the tasks
are complex/unfamiliar.
 People think they can multitask without weakening in performance.
 The human brain can only handle 1 attention consuming task at a time.

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