Psychology 2135A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Procedural Memory, Retrograde Amnesia, Interference Theory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: Sandra Hessels

Document Summary

A store of information that we are currently conscious of. Working memory- what we process of operate on information. Memory represented by the visual code, phonological code, semantic code. Chunking is one way to increase the capacity of short term memory by combining individual items into larger meaningful units. Knowledge is represented in associative networks, and schemas. Organized patterns of thought about some aspect of the world. The gist of an event or experience. Primacy effect- superior recall of early stimuli. Recency effect- superior recall of recent stimuli. Memory is enhanced when conditions present during retrieval match those that were present during encoding. Stimuli associated with an event become encoded as part of the memory and later used as a retrieval cue. Mood can be used as a cue for retrieval. Encoding failure- failing to put the information in the ltm in the rst place. Cant remember something if it is not there.