PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Long-Term Memory, Mammillary Body, Procedural Knowledge
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Mnemonics: strategies and tricks for improving memory, such as the use of a verse or formula, way to reduce information by chunking it. In short-term, the material is no longer an exact sensory image, but is an encoding of one, such as a word or phrase. This material either transfers into long-term memory or decays and is lost forever: the leaky bucket. Includes executive processes, (reading comprehension, following directions, note-taking, playing bridge, learning new words: hippocampus is involved because it allows us to take things from short term memory to long term memory. Long-term memory: permanent store of memory, stored via associations, key process is retrieval. Types of long-term memory: procedural- knowledge in the form of skills& cognitive operations on how to do something (playing tennis, riding a bike, typing, etc. ) Very difficult to be consciously recollected in the form of specific events. Social que or facts: method of getting short term to long term memory.
