PSYC 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Waking Life, Implicit Memory, Temporal Lobe

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1001
• Professor: Elaine Waddington Lamont

Document Summary

Semantic memory - memory for general information. Episodic memory - memory for personal events. Our cognitive system allows us to remember the past, experience the present, and travel forward in time to plan and anticipate things in the future. Episodic memory affords humans the ability to time travel . There are memory deficits associated with aging. Encoding - involves forming a memory code. For a word: how it looks, sounds, meaning, etc. Storage - involves maintaining encoded information in memory over time. Retrieval - involves recovering information from memory stores. Attention - involves focusing awareness on a narrow range of stimuli or events. A filter that screens out most potential stimuli while allowing a select few to pass through into conscious awareness. Cocktail party phenomenon : when at a party where there are many conversations, you pay attention to your conversation and filter out other conversations.