PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Implicit Memory, Suggestibility, Explicit Memory

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 101
• Professor: Janel Fergusson

Document Summary

We forget things because : trace decay: memory fades over time. Interference: other information interferes with your ability to recall target information. Memories with content you can consciously, explicitly state. Episodic: memories from specific events that you experienced (16th birthday) Sematic: generalized knowledge about the world, facts (paris is the capital of france) Autobiographical: memory for details about your own life (place of birth) Memory which is demonstrated through changes in behavior including skills, reflexes, responses (riding a bike) Memory retrieval: accessing information stored in memory: accessibility: information is there, can"t access it right now, availability: information is no longer there. Cues: pieces of information that help us find the memory we are looking for: tip-of-the tongue phenomenon, not simply additive. Context: if the context of encoding matches the context at retrieval, success is more likely. More likely to recall memories in similar moods, circumstances, etc. Reconstruction: every time a memory is retrieved, it is changed slightly.