PSYC 336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Processing Fluency, Episodic Memory, Implicit Memory

• School: University of San Diego
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 336
• Professor: Appleton-Knapp

Document Summary

Familiarity is more of a conclusion that you draw. Your processing of that stimulus is now faster and more efficient. You detect that increased fluency register the stimulus as distinctive or special. Try to figure out why the stimulus seems special reach a particular conclusion. Stimulus has distinctive quality because it"s a stimulus you"ve met before. More likely to decide a stimulus is familiar if the surrounding circumstances support it. You don"t attribute the fluency to a specific prior event no sense of familiarity. Illusion of familiarity if the processing of a completely novel stimulus is more fluent than you expected. Your processing of the stimulus is unexpectedly fluent you seek an attribution for this fluency, fooled into thinking the stimulus is familiar. Episodic memory memory for specific events. Semantic memory general knowledge, not tied to any time or place. Implicit memory revealed by indirect tasks , unconscious and automatic. Procedural memory knowing how (memory for skills)