PSYCH 240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Semantic Memory, Episodic Memory, Implicit Memory
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Taxonomy of memory: memory, long term memory, explicit memory, semantic memory, episodic memory. Syntactic information: grammatical structure we do not remember, prof lee thanked the mole, the mole as thanked by prof lee. Central ideas: rating importance of ideas, most important = most remembered, children remember important ideas, traffic and weather. Its auto(cid:373)ati(cid:272): they (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t ide(cid:374)tify the i(cid:373)porta(cid:374)t ideas (cid:449)he(cid:374) asked: poor recall for something that is unrelated to where you are, not o(cid:271)(cid:448)ious (cid:449)hat"s i(cid:373)porta(cid:374)t/(cid:272)e(cid:374)tral, memory depends on us looking for information. Laundry store: 18 ideas total, no title: recall 2. 8 ideas, title before reading: 5. 8 ideas, title after reading: 2. 7 ideas. Constructive memory: we build up memory from stuff we know and things from before, not a snapshot, prior knowledge can influence how you remember things. If you sleep right after studying, you get a big jump in memory.
