PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Anterograde Amnesia

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

Document Summary

Where information is stored relevantly in a permanent form - because you will remember your birthday for the rest of your life. It"s relevant to you - self relevant, referent information is very salient. Your brain won"t explode with too much knowledge,w e can store things infinitely. Declarative (explicit) - very explicit pieces of information, you can remember dates, your name, all types of things about yourself. Things get piled on, sometimes effortful to remember, and sometimes not. Non-declarative, procedural (implicit) - a kind of memory formed without us trying to try, we don"t have to remember the specific steps. Not paying attention - if the information never entered the short term memory system, that means that you won"t remember because it was never stored. Unless we keep activating the images, sounds etc, if it is even revisited, the connection between the neurons stop happening.