PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Semantic Memory, Memory Span, Implicit Memory
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Our memories are surprisingly good in some situations, and surprisingly bad in others. Making memories and remembering are active verbs, therefore, the way in which we do those actions may vary. Memory illusion if you remembered the word sweet. Our brains will often go beyond the available information to make sense of the world. Generally adaptive, but makes us prone to errors. Think back to the gestalt principle of perception. When remembering, we actively reconstruct memories, not passively reproduce them. When you remember yourself taking a walk, you see yourself as an observer would. Differ in terms of span and duration. Information moves from sensory to stm to ltm and then back to stm when it is retrieved. Brief storage of perceptual information before it is passed to short-term memory. Each sense has its own form of sensory memory. Memory system that remains information for limited durations. We can lose information in our stm due to two different processes:
