PSYCH 9B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Episodic Memory, Explicit Memory, Encephalitis
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You can declare your knowledge (use it to respond to a question) General facts, definitions, and knowledge about the world. Things that didn"t happen to you at any particular time or place. Information in ltm is organized in schemas (schemata) A schema is a mental representation or model of an object, event, or concept. It consists of a network of associated information. Individual pieces of information in a schema are called. Briefly display second word; participant responds as soon as they an identify the word. Assess how long the second word must be displayed for the participant to recognize it. Recognition time will be faster if the second word is nurse than if the second word is purse Focusing on details when perceiving or remembering something. Drawing on general knowledge or expectations when perceiving or remembering something. Semantic and episodic information is stored in ltm in schemas (associative networks)
