PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Basal Ganglia, Explicit Memory, Implicit Memory

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

Document Summary

Sensory memory: immediate, brief recording of sensory info into the memory sys: 2. Short-term memory: activated; holds a few items brie y before it is stored or forgotten; encoded through rehearsal; eg seven digits of a phone # when dialling, then forget it after: 3. Long-term memory: permanent, limitless store house of the memory system; for retrieval; e. g. knowledge, skills, and experiences. Making material personally meaningful: if new info is not relatable or meaning > dif cult processing it, we recall not literal text, but when we encoded e. g. lecture notes rather than lecture itself. Memory processing > automatic > implicit mem > cerebellum, basal ganglia > space time & hz. > effortful > explicit mem > hippo, frontal lobes > facts & gen knowledge. Measures of retention: recognition memory is quick & vast compared to recall, rehearsal > overlearning inc retention esp. when distributed overtime, we remember more than we recall.