PY 361 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Overlearning, Free Recall, Taco Bell
22 Mar 2016
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A retention interval is the period between a learning experience & its (cid:1) (cid:1) recall (cid:1) Ex: you see joe on tuesday at 10am and are asked on tuesday at. Short-term memory- memory for events following a retention interval shorter than one minute. Ex: remembering a telephone number long enough to dial it (cid:1) Long-term memory- memory for events following a retention interval longer than one minute. Ex: remembering the names of your family & friends (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Declarative/explicit memory deals w/ information that can be declared or expressed, usually in words. Semantic memory is memory for knowledge about the world: ex: alabama has won 3 out of the last 5 national championships in football. Episodic memory is the memory for one"s personal past experiences: ex: i remember being at the last ua national championship (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Nondeclarative/implicit memory deals w/ knowledge that cannot be expressed.
