PSC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Implicit Memory, Procedural Memory, Iconic Memory
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Hyperthymestic syndrome the ability to remember almost everything you experienced. Savant syndrome when people with developmental disabilities have genius capabilities incongruent with their mental disabilities. Iconic memory seeing lightning a few seconds after you see it for real. Short term memory lasts 5 to 20 seconds without rehearsal. Can generally hold between 5 and 7 pieces of info: only lasts up to 20 mins, also called working memory, where we work on (process and think about about) information. Info then either passes to long term memory or is lost: rehearsal, maintenance rehearsal simply repeating info over and over. Not very useful in getting info into long term memory: elaborative rehearsal linking stimuli to one another in a meaningful way. Trying to understand the relations between stimuli. Depth of processing the more deeply we process info, the better we remember it: decay the information fades away over time.
