PSY270H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Episodic Memory, Autobiographical Memory, Juggling

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY270H1
• Professor: David Chan

Document Summary

Difficulty recognizing familiar people, couldn"t recognize meaning of words, didn"t recognize famous names, etc. However, she could remember events in her life: remember what she did during the day, what happened weeks or months ago. Semantic memory & episodic memory involve 2 different mechanisms. Levine & coworkers: had subjects keep diaries describing personal events & facts from their semantic knowledge, put subjects in fmri scanner & listen to audiotape descriptions, personal events- elicited detailed episodic memories, semantic knowledge- reminded people of facts. Able to see which regions are associated w/ episodic memory and which are for semantic memory. Prior knowledge makes processing experiences much faster and easier. First time watching hockey: juggling the rules, looking for the puck all the time, wondering why they called a penalty, or off-side, etc. Not exactly the most enjoyable: hockey fan- Knows exactly where the puck is, anticipates the shot before it comes, and sees the beautiful save the goalie makes.