PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Lobotomy, Episodic Memory, Semantic Network
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Week 6 october 28 th , 2015. Tulving"s theory of memory systems: encoding specificity: the way an item is retrieved from memory depends on the way it was stored in memory. A cue is more likely to lead to the recall of a particular item i the cue was initially encoded along with that item. Participants learned a list of 24 pairs of words. The words that made up the pairs were only weakly associated, and they were printed differently (i. e. , one uppercase, one lowercase) The first word of each pair is the weak cue word, and the second word is the target. Recognition failure of recallable words: revisions to tulving"s original theory suggests the there may be five memory systems: Working memory: tulving suggested that each of the three memory systems is associated with a different kind of consciousness: Episodic memory: the memory system concerned with personally experienced events: autonoetic consciousness:
