PSYC 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Long-Term Memory, Episodic Memory

• School: Auburn University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2010
• Professor: Seth A Gitter

Document Summary

Effortlessly, quickly, and efficiently gets information into long term. Just like automatic processing: doesn"t require awareness memory, not great with complex information. Memories automatically encoded decay quickly and become hard to retrieve: movie lines/music lyrics. Usually not on purpose, automatic encoding just happens. Usually something that is worth very little to us. Unfortunately, we can only hold so much information in working memory. Not the best method for studying but . Useful if you are trying to perfect the information word for word: elaboration. If you"re trying to integrate or compare/contrast this is a good method. Connecting material; relating to other stuff you know. Significantly better memory than rehearsal by a land slide: we want to use memory to better understand not just memorize words. Study in short periods and take breaks. Nondeclarative memory (implicit memory: memories retrieved without awareness. Psyc2010 lecture 23 memory encoding: using working memory to get information from long term memory, automatic retrieval, example.