PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Anterograde Amnesia, Oliver Sacks, Clive Wearing
6 Mar 2017
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What is memory: the persistence of learning over time, memory is useless if you can"t learn things over time, through the storage and retrieval (functions, of information and skills (content) Go directly to long-term (implicit) memory: procedural memory, conditioned associations, associating an object with a person. Step 1: sensory memory: very brief recording of sensory information (varies depending on the sensation, analogous to an echo or an image, of all the sensations we take in, eg. Beyond tying a string on your finger: practice and depth of processing, strategies that rely on groupings, chunking and hierarchies, strategies that rely on visualization. Deep/ semantic processing: does the word start with a capital letter, does the word rhyme with darth vader, you will use encoded information to answer these questions. Chunking: create groups with this pieces of information, best when these groupings are familiar to us, hierarchies, adjust your learning capability by recognising where you previously learned this information.
