Psychology A185 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Classical Conditioning

• School: Orange Coast College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology A185
• Professor: Norris

Document Summary

Motor and cognitive skills: learning to downhill ski, drive a car. Episodic memory: memory for specific events/ episodes. Date of the attack on the world trade center. Explicit memory: conscious or intentional memory retrieval. I know that i exist, the question is what is the i that i know? . Continuous over time, past, present and in the future. Responsible for controlling the mind and the body ( will power ) Encoding specificity principle : memory is enhanced when the conditions for retrieval match those of encoding. Context quiet room therefore should study in a quiet room environment : learned the material in this room therefore beneficial. State try to be relaxed as you are relaxed learning the information helping memory. Mood depressed mood- normally can remember negative parts of the content. Strong link between mood and memory depression causes people to remember sad memories.