PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Prefrontal Cortex, Overlearning, Cerebellum
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Memory: the nervous system"s capacity to acquire and retain usable skills and knowledge, allowing organisms to benefit from experience: our memories are often incomplete, biased and distorted, we tend to remember personally relevant information. 3 rows of letters flash for 1/20th of a second, 3 different pitches (high pitch= remember top row, med pitch= middle row, etc. * wm & ltm can be dissociated form each other, but generally highly interdependent. Different long-term memory systems: memory is not just one entity but rather a process that involves several interacting systems. * distinction b/t episodic & semantic- british children, semantic memory intact, poor episodic memory. Implicit attitude formation can affect our beliefs about people. Jacoby- got participants to read a random list of names for pronunciation, 2 days later got them to read the same list to decide whether person was famous or not. Prospective memory: remembering to do something at some time in the future.
