PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Memory Consolidation, Dream Interpretation, Anterograde Amnesia

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Allan Greer

Document Summary

From stm ( short term memory ): Asked if a speci c letter was a part of the series. From ltm ( long term memory ): Depends on the task (e. g. recall vs recognition ) Information seems to stored in the brain as semantic network. Formed by related concepts (called nodes ) that are linked. Retrieval = process of activating a network. Grouping of cluster of knowledge about sequence of events or object. Arrange items into different groups and if there is too much to do, you have to go somewhere else due to lack of facilities, and that is the next step. The retrieval success depends on the similarity between cues studies during encoding and cues presented at the recall. Speci c cues are encoded, and these cues, or very similar ones, should be present when retrieval is attempted. Material learned in particular physiological state/ context is recalled best in same physiological state/ context.