PSYC1002 Lecture 5: Lecture 5- Implicit and False memory

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC1002
• Professor: Caleb Owens

Document Summary

Priming: unconscious associations between stimuli, display or mention of one concept leads to (cid:494)spreading activation(cid:495) to other related concepts. Declarative memory (explicit: semantic memory, episodic memory. Procedural memory (implicit: memory for how to do things, not verbalised, not available to conscious awareness, learnt through gradual experienced, operates automatically, does not need conscious attention. Levels of processing and memory: more (cid:494)deeply(cid:495) processed stimuli are better remembered than stimuli processed in a (cid:494)shallow(cid:495) manner. Explicit and implicit memory tasks: explicit memory tasks. Subjects explicitly told to remember items from previous list engage in intentional retrieval. Not told to remember, just to perform a task. E. g. fragment completion, stem completion, perceptual identification. Implicit memory demonstrated when participants more likely to complete or identify old than new items. The difference between implicit and explicit memory performance. Implicit memory not better for deeply processed items e. g. memory can be better following perceptual than semantic encoding.