PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Semantic Memory, Explicit Memory

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Procedural memory system: a memory for how to do things, a memory for skills and actions. Example: riding a bicycle, how to tie your shoes, driving a car. Declarative memory system: memory for information and facts: semantic memory: involves general information about rules and things that we have over learned. We can"t remember exactly how or when we learned this information: episodic memory: memory for specific events or episodes, these are usually unique events rather than repeated ones. Implicit or incidental memory is demonstrated when recall occurs on a task that does not requires intentional recall. Explicit memory is information that you intentionally try to remember. Inability to recall information in ltm: pseudo forgetting, it got lost along the way, information is available but not accessible. Why is information not accessible: context dependent forgetting or encoding specificity hypothesis when the cues at encoding and retrieval don"t match.