PSYC 11762 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Implicit Memory, Prospective Memory, Sensory Memory
26 Apr 2019
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Estimates on capacity range from 1000 billion to 1,000,000 billion bits of information (landauer, 1986): memory feats, synaptic changes, long-term potentiation (ltp) refers to synaptic enhancement after learning (lynch, Increase in neurotransmitter release or receptors on the receiving neuron indicates strengthening of synapses. the action potential: they learn to fire, more efficiently, stress hormones & memory, heightened emotions (stress related or otherwise) make for stronger memories. (potentiation) Cortisol is the stress hormone: flashbulb memory, an unique and highly emotional moment can give rise to clear, strong, and persistent memory called flashbulb memory. Though this memory is not free from errors: storing retrospective memories, explicit memory refers to facts and experiences that one can consciously know and declare. Implicit memory involves learning an action, and the individual does not know or declare what she knows: explicit memory, refers to memories that you can explain how you know them, or declare.
