ANTH 204 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Retrospective Memory, Episodic Memory, Prospective Memory
20 Feb 2017
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We need to talk about memory (via anticipation and addiction) Sensory memory: impressions of sensory after stimulus (e. g. , remembering what. Lasts for under a second something looks like after seeing it iconic memory; or a sound echoic memory) Working memory: (cid:498)the brain"s post-it note(cid:499), buffer of readily available context- relevant information kept in mind while processing; 6-7 items maximum. Some people think that all of our memories are retrievable, and that if we cannot retrieve a memory, it is because we do not have that memory in the first place. Others think that we have memories that are not retrievable to us, and that in principle everything that happens to us is stored in our memory in some way. Kind of like priming; we can have some implicit knowledge about something (a past experience/memory) that affects our behavior without our knowing. Implicit memory: not consciously retrievable; know-how; procedural memory; skills.
