PSY 11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Procedural Memory, Acrostic, Source Amnesia
27 Sep 2016
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How memory is processed: step 1: sensory memory (hots the 5 senses, step 2: short term memory (working memory) Ability to repeat what you just heard. Can hold 7 items plus or minus 2. Images and sounds: step 3: long term memory. A. declarative memory: memory you can put into words, two types, episodic memory. Memory for an episode in your life. Flashbulb memory: as if a person took a picture. General knowledge: yellow light means slow down, abcs, numbers, alzheimer disease patients lose semantic memory. Source amnesia: remember the content bit forget where you learned it, non-declarative memory, expressed through performance, motor skills, no conscious effort to recall it. Riding a bike, typing, playing an instrument: lasts the longest, 5 ways to improve memory, chunking compress information into one idea. A. rhymes and songs: need a slow steady beat, acronyms, use the first letter of a series, consolidate it into an abbreviation.
