PSY 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Basal Ganglia, Propranolol, Cerebellum
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Process of encoding, storage, and retrieval a. k. a learning that persist over time. Recognition: ability to identify items from memory. Chunking: grouping small bits of information into larger units of information. Being tested (self or in the classroom) leads to better recall. Pathway of neural activation creates a stored memory. Relearning: learn material for a second time. 20 seconds - a couple of minutes (cid:396)hold(cid:397) a limited amount of into (7+/-2) Can hold billions of pieces of information. Types of long term memory: implicit memory (non-declarative) Cerebellum and basal ganglia (linked to thalamus) Lost the ability to transfer short-term memories to long-term. Definition: we are better at remembering when tested in the same context as. Leaving the kitchen to go do a task, forgetting what you left to do, we learned something and then remembering once you come back into the kitchen. Definition: what we learn in one mental-state is more easily recalled in that same mental-state.
