Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Kim Peek, Clive Wearing, Semantic Memory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

Chunking- organizing or grouping bits of information into larger units, easier to edal with the information. Rehearsal- required for short-term memory: maintenance rehearsal: simple repetition of information over and over. The vast library of durable stored memories. Unless brain damage, we remain capable of forming new long-term memories until we are dead. The storage capacity of long-term memory is essentially unlimited. Two sub-types: declarative memory, procedural memory, declarative: facts, information and personal life events that can be brought to mind verbally or in the form of images. Two sub-types of declarative memory: episodic memory: Contains memory of events we have experienced personally. The people we have known, the places we have seen, the personal experiences that we have had. Ex: remembering your first day of kindergarten: semantic memory: Our memory of general knowledge that is made up of facts and general information. Ex: the capital of canada, what 3x7 equals, first president of usa.