PSYCH 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Free University Of Berlin, Mox Fuel, Sensory Memory
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Memory: memory - persistence of learning over time through the encoding, storage, and retrieval of information. Measures of memory retention: recall - retrieving previously learned information that is not presently in conscious awareness, recognition - identifying items that were previously learned, relearning - learning information having already learned it in the past, less time. Encoding memories: explicit memories, memory of facts and experiences that one consciously knows, 7+- 2, sensory memory a) Storing memories: explicit memories, types, semantic memory - matters of facts/general knowledge, episodic memory - memories of personally experienced events, frontal lobe, working memory, hippocampus, memory consolidation (1) sleep. Implicit memories: cerebellum, associations via classical conditioning, basal ganglia, procedural memories for skills, different systems. Forgetting memories: encoding failure, sensory memory, working memory and selective attention, storage decay, forgetting after encoding, memory decay of traces, ebbinghaus" forgetting curve, retrieval failure.
