PSY 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Richard Shiffrin, Long-Term Memory, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

Memory: learning that persists over time, information acquired, stored and retrieved. Adaptive: essential for survival and effective functioning in life: maladaptive: people living in war/tsunami develop post-traumatic stress disorder (relive tsunami) Explicit memory (or declarative memory): memory with awareness/consciousness (consciously remembering something) Encode through effortful processing; many things effortful then become effortless (e. g. learning language, driving) Implicit memory (or non-declarative memory): have memory but is unconscious/without awareness yet influences our behaviours (e. g. typing, cannot recall the last row of the keyboard) Procedural memory: memory of skills/habits gradually acquired that have become automatic (e. g. typing/biking) and classically conditioned associations (e. g. tensing up when dog approaches) Encode thorough automatic processing, encode automatically information about: (1) space: e. g. Encode place on page, visualize place on page (2) time: unintentionally note sequence of events (e. g. can retrace steps when lose something) (3) frequency: keep track of number of times event happens (e. g. seeing someone) Connectionism: views memories as products of interconnected neural networks.