PSY 0010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Prospective Memory, Semantic Memory, Episodic Memory
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Multiple forms of memory: how the past returns. Explicit memory: the act of consciously or intentionally retrieving past experiences. Implicit memory: the in uence of past experiences on later behavior, even without an effort to remember them or an awareness of the recollection. Priming: an enhanced ability to think of a stimulus as a result of a recent exposure to the stimulus; less cortical activation (perceptual and conceptual priming) Procedural memory: the gradual acquisition of skills as a result of practice, or. Semantic memory: a network of associated facts and concepts that make up our general knowledge of the world. Episodic memory: the collection of past personal experiences that occurred at a particular time and place. Memory failures: the seven sins of memory: transience: forgetting what occurs with the passage of time. Memory fades more quickly at rst, then slowly over time. Involves a switch from speci c to more gradual memories.
