PSYA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Episodic Memory
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A good memory is not about the size of the memory -> it is often about how much information is stored and the way you put things into your memory. Jill price -> obsessive encoder -> is it that nice to remember everything? no thankyou. Consolidation -> a critical step between encoding" and storage". > your brain encoding things in a way that makes them easier to retrieve later. Football example -> football players that get clobbered really hard have trouble remembering plays (both right away and long term) So when we encode information is can stick around. Episodic memories -> memories come with rich details about the episodic of the events that make up the memory. Semantic memories -> we remember the concept or the big idea of the memory but don"t get details about the events that formed the memory. > often become concepts we are familiar with.
