PSYCO258 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Classical Conditioning, Autobiographical Memory, Explicit Memory

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO258
• Professor: Weimin Mou

Document Summary

Interaction: different types of memory can interact and share mechanisms. Short term memory: lasts for about 15 seconds. Working memory: emphasizes on dynamic processes that are needed to explain complex cognitions such as understanding language, solving problems, and making decisions. Long term memory: episodic memory: memory for specific experiences from the past, procedural memory: memory for how to carry out physical actions. Distinguishing between different types of memory is useful because it divides memory into smaller, easier-to-study components. Consider evidence that different components of the brain are based on different mechanisms through: (1) behavioural experiments (2) neuropsychological studies of the effects of brain damage on memory (3) brain imaging experiments. Order of this chapter: short-term memory episodic, semantic, & procedural components of long-term memory (& at two other kinds of long-term memories). Goal: show how different components of memory differ, what they share in common, and how they interact with one another to create our overall experience of memory.