PSY312H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Explicit Memory, Sensory Memory, Working Memory
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Competing memories, how we form and store memories. If an emotion attached to an event, we are more likely to remember an event, when emotion is evoked again more likely to remember it. Encoding: transforming information into a form that can be entered and retained in the memory system. Storage: retaining information in memory so that it can be used at a later time. Retrieval: recovering information stored in memory so that we are consciously aware of it. Working memory: around 7 chunks of information capacity. Encoding and retrieving at the same time-sophisticated process. Automatic: interpreting changes in sound waves and meaning and effortful: effortful concentrating on speech. Automatic process: habituation and associative learning-two types: operant and classical conditioning. Types of long-term memory (tolving): explicit: memory with awareness; info can be consciously recollected; also called declarative memory. Episodic:events you have experienced (internal diary), most sophisticated, tied to personal experience.
