PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Suggestibility, Implicit Memory, Retrograde Amnesia

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

Parallel processing: searching for one feature is fast and automatic; the target will grab your attention immediately. Serial processing: searching for two or more features is slow and effortful; must attend to each target individually. Search metaphor: the way we talk about memory as a place that hold things in the brain; a way to recall memory by searching for a particular memory piece in an unorganized brain. Plato and aristotle: describe memory as a wax tablet, when experiences pressed into the tablet, it creates shapes and patterns of writing. Failure of search: describe the inability to remember something. Reconstruction: memory takes information from the environment to help trigger useful memories; a way to recall memory by relating to certain situation. *memory is not a recording, it is a reconstruction! Memories are stored in multiple regions of the linked through memory circuits. Medial temporal lobes: important for the consolidation of explicit memories.