Memory Three Kinds of Memory Episodic Specific event

Memory

Three Kinds of Memory • Episodic – Specific event – flashbulb • Semantic • Explicit • Implicit

Three Processes of Memory • Encoding – Visual – Acoustic – Semantic • Storage – Maintenance Rehearsal – Elaborative Rehearsal – Organizational Systems • Retrieval – Context dependent memory – State dependent memory – On the tip of your tongue

Three Stages of Memory • Sensory • Short term memory • Long term memory

Sensory Memory • Iconic • Eidetic imagery • Echoic memory

Short-Term Memory Short-term Memorymemory system that retains information for a few seconds to a few minutes.

Long-term Memory • Long-term Memorymemory system that retains information for hours, days, weeks, months or decades

Transition from STM to LTM • • Primacy Effect Recency effect Chunking interference

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View of Memory • As reconstruction • Schemas

Capacity and Limits to your memory • How much can it hold? • How long do we remember it?

Basic Memory Tasks • Recognition • Recall • relearning

Forgetting • Why do we forget? • Decay • Repression

Amnesia- the blocking of older memories and the loss of new ones -Getting hit on the head -Electric Shock - Major Trauma

Explaining Amnesia Explanations for Amnesia 1. Hit on the head could temporarily stop blood flow 2. Hit on the head could mix up brain’s electrical charges

Types of Amnesia • Amnesia – Retrograde – Anterograde • transient global amnesia – Infantile

Improving Memory • • Drill and Practice Relate to existing Knowledge Form Unusual associations Mnemonic devices