PSY 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7.4-7.6: Procedural Memory, Source Amnesia, Psychological Trauma
29 May 2017
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Implicit (nondeclarative): does not require conscious effort and often cannot be verbally described. Classical conditioning: associating two stimuli elicits a response. Explicit (declarative): requires conscious effort and often can be verbally described. Prospective memory is remembering to do something. Prospective memory: remembering to do something at some future time. Transience, blocking, absent mindedness, persistence: forgetting and remembering. Blocking/retrieval failure: inability to remember needed information. Absent mindedness/encoding failure: reduced memory due to failure to pay attention. Persistence: the resurgence of unwanted or disturbing memories one would like to forget. Misattribution, bias, and suggestibility: distortions of memory. Misattribution: assigning a memory to the wrong source. Bias: influence of current knowledge on memory for past events. Suggestibility: altering a memory because of misleading. Proactive interference: old information inhibits the ability to remember new information. Retroactive interference: new information inhibits the ability to remember old information. Amnesia is a deficit in long term memory.
