PSYC 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: University Of Manchester, Episodic Memory, Endel Tulving

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 221
• Professor: Thomas Spalek

Document Summary

Episodic memory: autobiographical knowledge about personal past, unique to the individual. Semantic memory: general knowledge about the world that all members of a culture possess. Bank side of a river place where money is kept. Instantiation = encoding a particular structural node as connected to a particular semantic node semantic memory intrudes to influence episodic memory study: the fish attacked the swimmer best cue for recall of attacked the swimmer is shark , not fish . Verification= indicating the truth of a test item. A horse is an animal; a table is a fruit. Production= retrieving an instance from memory when given a cue. Hierarchical network model (collins & quillian, 1969) organization of the information is hierarchical assumption of cognitive economy features or properties are represented only once at the highest level of the hierarchy. Salmon sings tall big pink yellow can"t fly scary edible.