PSYC 2650 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Episodic Memory, Retrograde Amnesia, Procedural Memory

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2650
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Leanring as preperation for retrieval: connections serve as retrieval paths when wanting to locate information in memory. Encoding specificity: what you encode is specific, not just the physical stimulus but the stimulus together with its context, a cue is effective only if it was congruent with what was stored in memory. Memory without awareness: two types of memory, explicit memories are ones that are usually revealed through direct memory testing testing that specifically urges you to remember the past. Recall and standard recognition testing are tests for direct memory: implicit memories are revealed by indirect memory testing manifested as priming effects. Behavior is influenced by a prior event. Interpreting information given in a study maturated from somewhere else due to a feeling of familiarity when given a delay before testing again: essentially it is misinterpretation of where the information originated from. Implicit memories and stimuli: familiar information was not perceived as familiar due to a stimulus being attached to such.