PSYC 4114 Lecture Notes - Lecture 99: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Iconic Memory, Squid
27 Mar 2018
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Amnesia: types of memory, any process that allows us to learn from an experience and alter our future behavior counts as memory , nondeclarative -> procedural skills (motor, perceptual, cognitive) / priming (perceptual semantic) / conditioning / Nonassociative (habituation, sensitization): memory of which we"re not explicitly aware, the concept of nondeclarative memory is not the antithesis of cognition. Nondeclarative memories often provide information that we interpret cognitively. Example: sensory adaptation: if you wake up in the night and your arm is numb, you can figure out that you were probably sleeping on your arm, don"t need any more complicated information, procedural memory. Memory for extremely automatic skills, especially motor skills. Examples: riding a bike: hard to explain how to do it, serial reaction time tasks: (dance dance. More critical is its structure: the basal ganglia: not the hippocampus, declarative -> semantic (facts) / episodic (events, simple priming and conditioning also helps us out a lot.
