PSYCH 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Eidetic Memory, Short-Term Memory, Echoic Memory
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Primacy effect: first few items on list (they"ve been in our memory long enough to be in long term) Recency effect: last things on list are still in memory nothing else has come in to replace them: long-term memory: not just one storage area, virtually unlimited capacity & duration. If you learn something today, you can"t predict how many other things you"ll need to learn before forgetting what you learned today. Can"t predict how long memory will last in long term: types of ltm, implicit: memories that you can"t consciously recall but help you do things. Difficult to articulate: explicit: memories that you can consciously recall (ex. Remembering birthday) (1) semantic: stuff you find in an encyclopedic, knowledge of the world, meaning of words (2) episodic: memory of events, whether you were there or not. Flashbulb memories: unusually vivid memories of a very specific moment in time (ex. Accuracy is high only in events where you were a direct participant.
