PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Episodic Memory, Explicit Memory, Procedural Memory

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

Document Summary

Why we forget: ineffective encoding-not working well with information in working memory and short- term memory, decay, retrieval failure-unable to access memory, interference. There are two types of interference: retroactive interference-new information interferes with old. Information is competing for space: proactive interference-positive effect on future ability to remember things. Information that can be stated, explicit memories, e. first kiss. Ex: words, definitions, names, dates, faces, events, concepts, ideas. Ex: procedure of riding a bike, playing piano, drawing. General facts about the world, not personal e. what you read on the news: what you can bring to memory and declare as fact. Personal experiences and facts (with chronological or temporal component: story of us as main actors, fundamental to our identity. I am bored with the lecture on memory. I remember stubbing my toe getting off the 196 bus at york today. I can still hear the loud voice of the person who sat next to me in psy1010.