PSYC 1020H Lecture Notes - Fear Conditioning, Memory Consolidation, Procedural Memory
8 Jul 2014
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Memory you, your memory stores your personal experiences, emotions, preferences/ dislikes, motor skills, word knowledge, language, You as a person are derived from experiences that have been stored in your nervous system. This is possible because your brain has developed the capacity to store information. Learning is the process of acquiring new information while memory refers to the persistence of learning in a state that can be revealed at a later time . The capacity to retain and retrieve information and the changes in structures that account for this capacity. Ebbinghaus first scientific methods for assessing acquisition and retention of a controlled experience. Invented nonsense syllables, meaningless words need to be learned and retained without the benefit of new knowledge ( pure memory ) Types of long term memory procedural memory knowing how. Anterograde can"t establish new long term memories. Retrograde memories before the assault to the brain.
