PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Cerebral Cortex, Basal Ganglia, Scantron Corporation

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Jeffrey Yen

Document Summary

Miller proposed people can remember 7 +/-2 bits: 7 digits, 6 letters, 5 words. More if we engage the process of working memory: effortful processing: rehearsal, chunking, linking, mnemonics, semantic, processing. Retrieval is most effective when it occurs in the same cntext as encoding. Being in a coffee shop would be more likely to remember it underwater) easier to retrieve the information again when you are sad) Context-dependent learning (if you learned something underwater, you. If you"re sad while learning, it"ll be: episodic: personal experiences organized into (cid:498)episodes(cid:499); 1st person. Declarative memory: conscious and verbalisable: sematic: include facts about the world awareness, procedural: motor memory, classical conditioning. Can be classically conditioned without your awareness. When you encode information into your long term memory it can change things in your brain. Hippocampus brain area involved in the encoding of long-term memories. Long-term potentiation: an enduring increase in connectivity/transmission of neural signals between nerve cells that fire together.