PSYC 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: John Mcgeoch, Motor Learning, Scoville Scale

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 221
• Professor: Mc Colemanand Kleffner

Document Summary

Ltm is fundamental to nearly every mental process. Declarative/explicit memory: the ltm knowledge that can be retrieved then reflected on consciously. Nondeclarative/implicit memory: ltm performance affected by prior experience with no necessary awareness of influence. Includes skills/habits, priming, classical conditioning, and nonassociative learning. Nondeclarative and declarative memory are part of a taxonomy proposed by. Episodic memory: a person"s autobiographical memory, memory of the personally experienced and remembered events of a lifetime. Semantic memory: general world knowledge, knowledge that relates concepts and ideas to one another, including your world knowledge of how to express those concepts and ideas in language. Episodic memory is to mental autobiography as semantic memory is to mental encyclopedia; both are part of explicit memory. Mnemonic device: an active, strategic learning device or method for storing and remembering material. Material that must be memorized is repeatedly practiced, the material is integrated into an existing memory framework, and the device provides a means of retrieving the information.