Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Retrograde Amnesia, Sensory Memory, Procedural Memory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: John Campbell

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Involves all of the above 3 steps: failure in any can result in memory failure. The simple repetition of information over and over. Look up a telephone number and silently say it over to yourself until you get the phone: elaborative rehearsal. Focusing on the meaning of the information or relating it to other things that we already know, and applying that. This type is more effective overall for transferring information to long term memory: memory codes are mental representations of information, memory codes: Focus on the meaning = semantic encoding. There isn"t always a clear match between information and the encoding. Primary effect- superior recall of early words. Episodic: personal events happened to you in your life. Semantic: facts and figures, habits (capital of canada: procedural memory. Human camera: daniel tammet and kim peek have amazing abilities to store and retrieve particular types of information.