PSYCH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Memory Consolidation, Hebbian Theory, Operant Conditioning
30 Jan 2018
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"you have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our li(cid:448)es. Life (cid:449)ithout (cid:373)e(cid:373)ory is (cid:374)o life at all our (cid:373)e(cid:373)ory is our cohere(cid:374)ce, our reaso(cid:374), our feeling, even our action. Short-term memory is what you can remember for a small frame of time (a couple of seconds to a couple of minutes) Phonological loop (when you hear something, you can repeat it in your head) Visuospatial sketchpad (being able to imagine something and bring an image to your mind) I know you know this because you can show me. If you"ve heard a word recently, you"re more likely to be able to reuse it or remember it because you have been primed to recognize the word. Procedural (skills and habits: being able to ride a bike or knowing how to snowboard. Something you"d have to show rather than describe.
