PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Long-Term Memory, Standard Model, Alcoholism

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Geoff Hollis

Document Summary

By giving people a bunch of completely random things, memory can be tested. When dependencies between information are formed, it becomes easier to internalize. Memory is associative; our memory doesn"t work by filing away independent pieces of information relativity to other information. Systematic (when relationships can be formed between concepts. Because memory is associative, we recall knowledge better in the context of encoding. When we encode new memories (experience to memory), that memory is encoded relative to the context. Chronic alcoholism comes with a whole bunch of memory issues but they are better at finding things when they are drunk. Reconstructing the details of where the event happened. Intricately tied with the things that happen around us. Study conditions need to match the test conditions. When you are studying, do not memorize independent things look for relationships. Things at the beginning are remembered well because they have bee rehearsed and entered long term memory.