Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Confabulation

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Prof

Document Summary

In pursuit of memory: measuring how memory works generally evaluates two forms of memories, explicit memory: conscious, intentional recollection of an event or of an item of information, implicit memory: unconscious retention in memory, as evidenced by the effect of a previous experience or encountered information on current thoughts or actions. (less active) Explicit memory: refers to conscious, intentional recollection, assessed using recall and recognition tasks, recall: (more difficult) the ability to retrieve and reproduce from memory previously encountered material (eg. state the different psychological perspectives, recognition: the ability to identify previously encountered material (eg. multi choice questions) Information processing models: cognitive processes involve computer ideas of encoding, storing, and retrieving information, information represented as concepts, propositions, images, or cognitive schemas, includes the three box model of memory, parallel distributed processing, knowledge is represented as connections among thousands of interacting processing units, distributed in a vast network operating in parallel.