Sarah Grison • Todd Heatherton • Michael Gazzaniga ...

Sarah Grison ? Todd Heatherton ? Michael Gazzaniga

Psychology in Your Life

FIRST EDITION

Chapter 7 Memory

? 2014 W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

Section 7.1

How Do We Acquire Memories?

7.1 How Do We Acquire Memories?

? Memory

? The nervous system's capacity to acquire and retain skills and knowledge for later retrieval

We Acquire Memories by Processing Information

? Encoding

? The processing of information so that it can be stored

? Storage

? The retention of encoded representations over time

? Retrieval

? The act of recalling or remembering stored information when it is needed

? See figure 7.2 next slide

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