PSYCO104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Suggestibility, Hermann Ebbinghaus, Electroconvulsive Therapy

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO104
• Professor: Michele Moscicki

Document Summary

Explicit memory: consciously or intentionally retrieve past experiences. Implicit memory: past experiences influence later behaviour without conscious awareness of the memory. Procedural memory: gradual acquisition of skills through practice. Can be formed by people with amnesia. An enhanced ability to think of a stimulus as a result of recent exposure to the stimulus. Priming leads to decreased brain activity, saving processing time (implicit not explicit) Elaborative encoding - process of actively relating new info to knowledge that is already in memory. People who understood meaning of word remember better than those who tried to, for example, rhyme. Lower left frontal lobe very active when doing elaborative encoding. Process of storing new info by converting it into mental pictures. Method loci - think of place you know very well (your home) To remember everything placed in the location you basically walk through this place in your head. Relate incoming knowledge to knowledge already in memory.