PSY 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Psy, Basal Ganglia, Elizabeth Loftus
17 Sep 2020
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Two brain networks: explicit: hippocampus, implicit: cerebellum & basal ganglia (ex. Man cringing at handshake bc of conditioned stimulus and conditioned response). Basal ganglia is for physical skills: 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. Context dependent memory: we retrieve a memory more easily when in the same context as when you formed the memory. Just sitting down and opening your book might bring the memory back moe overlap between cues & encoding better memory. Serial position effect: the serial position effect: refers to the tendency, when learning information in a long list, to more likely recall the first items (primary effect) and the last items (recency effect) Interference: proactive: occurs when older memory makes it more difficult to remember new information (ex. Every time we retrieve a memory, we alter it at least a little bit.
