PSYC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Leading Question, Hermann Ebbinghaus, 50 First Dates

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1200
• Professor: Dawson Clary

Document Summary

Explicit memory: conscious remembering of info about some event in your life. Implicit memory: unconscious influence of life experiences on thought and behaviour. Recall: ability to generate information about some event from your past. Recognition: ability to identify information that you have encountered in your past. Priming: present information and see whether it affects how well you do some task later. Savings in re-learning: if you"(cid:448)e lea(cid:396)(cid:374)ed i(cid:374)fo o(cid:396) a skill (cid:271)efo(cid:396)e it (cid:449)ill (cid:271)e easie(cid:396) to (cid:396)e-learn it later on. 3 memory stores: sensory memory (sensory store, short-term store (from attention, long-term store (rehearsal) Retrieval is possible: sensory memory: holds all sensory info available out there (ex: visual, auditory, smells, etc) very briefly. Function: gives time to decide if info is important enough for our attention, this info goes into short- Term memory while we forget about the rest: short-term memory: Able to hold about 7 2 bits of info in consciousness.