PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Classical Conditioning, Basal Ganglia, Amygdala

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

2 kinds: explicit (declarative memory): memory with awareness. It can be consciously retrieved, it is there consciously (ex: remembering what you did last summer): implicit: memory without awareness. It cannot be consciously retrieved, it is there unconsciously (ex: knowing how to type fast without looking, but not knowing the letters on the bottom of the keyboard zxcvbnm). Procedural memory: skills and habits that we gradually require and then can do without thinking (ex: tying shoes, riding bike, etc. Rehearsal: ebbinghans was the first to scientifically study memory. He created lists of nonsense syllables (das - baz - xir) and discovered that the more he rehearsed the first day, the better he did the second day. Elaborative processing: in depth processing of information that you must stop and understand. ), state information in your own words, and relate new information to things you already know.