PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Implicit Memory, Long-Term Potentiation, Frontal Lobe

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Automatic processing most common (automatically, no effort) Others are effortful processing (needs attention, is controlled: rehearsal requires effort (to maintain information and pass onto long-term) Semantic meaning: is the word an animal: words that are processed semantically are better remembered. Visual encoding/image: words are easily imagined are better remembered than more abstract words (liberty, hope) Mnemonic devices: a means to remember long lists and passages. I. e. make up a story for list: chunking: we are able to store +/- 7 items in short-term memory, imporved through chunking (i. e. acronyms) Iconic(visual pictures last tenths of sec) & ethoic (auditory 3/4 sec) Long term potentiation: the prolonged potential of neuronal firing. Once repeatedly used (circuit), the sending neuron easily releases neurotransmitters and post synaptic neuron may increase the number of receptor sites (or structure may change) If individual loses memory = no recollection of the memory when conscious. Memory for facts, experiences that one can consciously recall (i. e personal history)

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