PSYC 1200 Lecture Notes - Iconic Memory, Implicit Memory, Explicit Memory
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Conscious remembering of information about some event in your life. Unconscious influence of life experiences on thought and behaviour. Participants age 17-74 asked to recall high school classmates and even 17 year-olds forgot 1/3 of them; recall by older participants was even worse. Recognition of classmates for all age groups: 90% A way of testing implicit memory that involves the presentation of information and seeing whether it affects how you do a task later. e. g. word-stem completion; def___ -complete the word. You would be more likely to say defend if shown that word earlier. A way of testing implicit memory; if you have learned information or a skill before, it will be easier to relearn it now. This is partly the goal of introductory courses. There a 3 different places where information is stored in order to use it as a basis for guiding your ongoing experiences. Three memory stores: sensory memory, short-term memory (stm), long-term memory.