Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hypnosis, Explicit Memory, Eyewitness Identification

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: Marcie Penner- Wilger

Document Summary

Contrast with short term or working memory. Retention of information over long periods of time. Large (unlimited) capacity, but we still forget things. Ability to remember is influenced by processes at encoding and retrieval stages. Memory consists of a huge network of nodes with connections between nodes (associations) Individual node becomes activated (fires) when it receives enough input to reach threshold. Semantically related (doctor/nurse) *100ms faster* {doctor primes other related words} Faster to make decision if words are related. A canary is a canary (0 levels) A canary is a bird (1 level) A canary is an animal (2 levels) Rt take longer as levels go up. Rt as an index of the time to travel between levels. Slower to make decision if more levels traversed. Also faster to make decision for more typical exemplars (additional iv) Recognition task - was this sentence on the previous list? yes/no.