PSY 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Implicit Memory, Sensory Memory, Psy

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 001
• Professor: diaz

Document Summary

Explicit memory: memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and. Humans encode explicit memories through conscious effortful processing: effortful processing: encoding that requires attention and conscious effort. Automatic processing: unconscious encoding of incidental information, such as space, time, and frequency, and of well learned information, such as word meanings. Implicit memory: retention of learned skills or classically conditioned associations independent of conscious recollection. Our implicit memory includes memorizing things for automatic skills and classically conditioned associations among stimuli. Automatic process information: space, time, events, frequency. Sensory memory of scenes or echoes of sounds. Sensory memory feeds our active working memory, recording momentary images. Iconic memory: a momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli; a photographic. Echoic memory: a momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli; if attention is or picture image memory lasting no more than a few tenths of a second elsewhere, sounds and words can still be recalled within 3-4 seconds.