PSY 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Retrograde Amnesia, Memory Consolidation, Anterograde Amnesia

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Kenneth Campbell

Document Summary

Memory is the resistance of learning over time through the encoding, storage, and retrieval of information. Parallel processing is used in the memory making process. Explicit memory - memory of facts and experiences that one can continuously know and declare (aka declarative memory) Implicit memory is retention of learned skills or classically conditioned associations independent of conscious recollection (aka non declarative memory. Effortful processing is encoding that required attention and copious effort. Automatic processing is unconscious encoding of incidental information such as space time frequency and of well learned info such as the meaning of words. An iconic memory is a momentary sensory memory of a visual stimuli - a photographic or picture memory lasting no more than a 1/5 of a second. An echoic memory is a momentary sensory memory of an auditory stimuli - if attention is elsewhere sounds and words can still be recalled wishing 3-4 seconds.