Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mnemonic, International Securities Identification Number, Episodic Memory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: John Paul Minda

Document Summary

Short-term memory with maintenance via rehearsal: long-term memory or loss. Working memory: working memory holds info from perception. Info retrieved from permanent memory: central executive coordinates the systems. Craik and tulving (1975: craik and lockhart (1972, participants asked to learn words in various encoding instructions: Levels of processing stimuli are subjected to a series of processes. Semantic: would the word fit the sentence : (cid:498)he met a _______________ on the. Two explicit/declarative memory systems proposed by endel tulving. Semantic memory: memory for facts, general knowledge representation. Episodic memory: memory for the past, a temporal dimension, tested with recognition and recall. Semantic memory system: hierarchical models, spreading activation, propositional networks (act-r) Knowledge is organized as a hierarchy within a spreading activation system: nodes=concepts/facts, links=relations between concepts. Attributes of the higher order node are always true of lower order nodes. When node fires, the connected neurons fire as well: spreads activation throughout the system. Priming: using a lexical decision tasks.