PSYCH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Explicit Memory, Implicit Memory, Working Memory
9 Dec 2013
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Our memory isn"t like a tape recorder - it remembers certain things over others. Encoding - paying attention, transferring into the brain. Young children don"t have ways to remember things. Self-reference effect - the more you can relate something back to yourself, the better you"ll remember it. Changing environments changes your ability to remember materials. Retrieval pathways: like bread-crumbs, leads you to remembering materials. Mental context is more important than physical context while learning. Schema: once you know something, you should know be able to remember it better (when you know the paragraph is about flying the kite, you remember and connect it) Can be complicated because you expect to see things: made memory errors because of what they expect. Conditioning memory: associating feelings with something (good times with a certain kind of beer) Priming: previous exposure, even if you don"t remember. Conditioning memory can also be a part of this.
