PY - Psychology PY 100S Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Recoilless Rifle, Eyewitness Testimony, Childhood Amnesia
14 Oct 2016
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Memory: putting information into a form that our memory system can use, acoustic codes, visual codes, semantic codes (meaning) Retrieval: getting information out of memory (recalling info stored in memory) Episodic: when: recall of personal events you witnessed. Semantic: what: memory of generalized world knowledge. Procedural: how: memory about how to do things. Repeating information over and over to keep it in active memory. Grocery lists, phone numbers: elaborative rehearsal. Relates new information to information already in memory. You note that your new customer lives on the same street as your. Transfer-appropriate processing grandma: memory depends on how the encoding process matches up with what is ultimately retrieved. Neural network model or parallel distributed processing: new facts are not disconnected and independent, new experiences provide specific information and also become part of, and alter, a whole network of associations in a person"s overall knowledge base.
