PSYCH 130 Chapter 6: Chapter 6 Psych Notes
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2: we have two potential avenues by which we can retrieve information, memory is encoded depending on the avenue the stimuli is presented, memory of verbal information can be boosted by linking it to imagery. 3: not much longer than the brief time it is exposed to the visual, auditory, and other senses, echoic memory: auditory sensory memory. 4: visual-spatial sketchpad: functions independently of the phonological loop. Implicit memory (nondeclarative memory): memory in which behavior is affected by prior experience without a conscious recollection of that experience: explicit memory consists of: 5: episodic memory: information about the where, when, and what of life"s happenings, semantic memory: knowledge about the world, words/ language are important to tell our stories, language is vital to memory. Implicit memory involves: procedural memory: memory for skills, priming: the activation of information already in storage, to help remember new information better and faster, the process of classical conditioning.
