PSYC10003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Episodic Memory, Explicit Memory, Procedural Memory
13 Nov 2013
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3 phases of memory: encoding info. First registered: consolidation info. is being actively retained, gradual process, dynamic changes at a neural level to memory. Memory building takes time: retrieval utilising the info. , eg. trying to remember something. Not retrieving the original memory a reconstruction of the memory is what you experience (your best guess to what happened). What you end up remembering is determined at the time of encoding. Depends on what sorts of things are you doing with that info. One method of processing objects well: method of loci: associating what you see with different spatial locations. Determined on whether you"re actually attending to the info. How you"re thinking about the info. (elaborative processing) what you"re doing with the information. Lack of attention to the info: sin of absentmindedness . Procedural memory: not paying attention to activity as it becomes automated. We can"t pay attention to everything at the same time.
