PSY 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Basal Ganglia, Psych, Elizabeth Loftus
15 Sep 2020
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Very small amount of things in stm and doesn"t stay long. Explicit memory (declarative memories) of conscious facts and experience encoded through conscious, effortful processing. Implicit memories (non-declarative) that form through automatic processes, bypass conscious encoding track. Long term memory explicit and implicit memories. Explicit memory (declarative memories) : facts and experiences that we n consciously know and recall, acquired through effortful processing, studying rehearsing, thinking, processing and then storing info in ltm. Implicit memories (non-declarative): not fully aware of, automatic processing, implicit are formed without our awareness that we are building a memory and w/o rehearsal or other process in working memory. Man cringing at handshake bc of conditioned stimulus and conditioned response). Memory doesn"t begin to form throughout 2-4 years. But implicit memories remain like learning how to walk/talk etc. Cant have explicit memories because our hippocampus isn"t developed yet: infantile amnesia.
