PSY260H1 Chapter 4: Chapter four textbook notes
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Skill memory: what a person knows how to do. Since memories for events and facts depend on skill memories, it may be fair to refer to declarative memories as non-skill memories. Long lasting and improved by repeated experiences. Can"t always be verbalized/difficult to convey to other. May be acquired and retrieved without conscious awareness (non-declarative) For facts: long lasting and improved by repeated experiences. Can be acquired in a single exposure. Content"s consciously accessible: perceptual-motor skills: learned movement patterns guided by sensory inputs. Ex: ballet dancers learn precisely choreographed dance sequences. In contrast to closed skills, open skills require participants to respond based on prediction about changing environments: ex: salsa dancing at a party, depends to some extent on the dancers predicting (or directing) their partner"s next move. Most perceptual motor skills contain aspects of both closed skills and open skills. Researchers experiments the skills participants can learn relatively quickly such as tower of hanoi (figure 4. 1)
