01:830:101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Episodic Memory, Explicit Memory, Encoding Specificity Principle

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: 01:830:101
• Professor: Dr.John Ackroff

Document Summary

Procedural memories-memories of how to do something (develops gradually) Declarative memories-memories we can readily state in words (form all at once) information-processing model-information that enters the system is processed, coded, and stored: new info --rehearsal--> short-term mem. -time & association--> long-term mem: short-term memory is converted to long-term = consolidate memories. Working memory: working memory-a system for working with current information, executive functioning-governs shifts of attention back and forth among tasks as necessary. Mnemonic devices: mnemonic device-any memory aid based on encoding items in a special way, method of loci-memorizing a series of places, and then using a vivid image to associate each location with something you want to remember. Storage: hypermnesia-gain of memory over time, reconstruct: during an experience, you construct a memory. Memory for traumatic events: repression-the process of moving an unbearably unacceptable memory or impulse from the conscious mind to the unconscious mind, dissociation-memory that one has stored but cannot retrieve.