PSY BEH 11B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Implicit Memory, Semantic Memory, Procedural Memory
16 Apr 2016
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1: may not remember where you irst learned this informaion, you just know, ex. Meanings of words, capital of france, what is a cloud? b. Implicit memory: knowledge you are not conscious of, cant verbalize it. Informaion in long term memory (ltm) is organized in schemas a: a schema is a mental representaion or model of an object, event or concept c. d, semanic prining. It consists of a network of associated informaion. Individual pieces of informaion in a schema are called nodes : paricipant reads the word: doctor, briely display second word. Informaion in schemas becomes accessible through spreading acivaion g: acivaion decays or fades over ime, acivaion can spread from the top down, or from the botom up. Implicit memory test: given fragments or words and asked to ill in, results, paricipants who had previously read words were more b. likely to complete word fragments with those words.
