PSYC 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Autobiographical Memory, Visual Memory, Frontal Lobe

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1100
• Professor: Sumarga Suanda

Document Summary

Intense memory for personal, emotional events, and other events as well. "elaborative encoding": linking new knowledge to previous knowledge. Semantic encoding - process of relating new information to semantic knowledge. Visual encoding - storing new information by conversion to a mental picture. Organizational encoding - storing new information by sorting type. Two groups - one was shown picture of a man and told his name was baker, the other was told he was a baker name was baker, the other was told he was a baker. Those told he was a baker remembered this fact far more frequently. Due to past experiences/stereotypes related with bakers as opposed to people named "baker" Individual differences associated with higher-order cognitive abilities. Long-term memory - some information may be lost over time. Anterograde amnesia - memory of events before brain injury is okay, memory of events after injury is impaired. Hippocampus is critical for formation but not final destination of long-term memory.