PSYC 3P60 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Episodic Memory, Implicit Memory, Explicit Memory
2 Mar 2016
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Declaraive memory: facts and events; comes in 2 types: episodic and semanic. Episodic memory: memory for episodes such as what you had for breakfast this morning. Explicit memory: the fact that its available to conscious awareness and can be directly assessed by tests of recall or recogniion memory. Semanic memory: our knowledge of language, rules and concepts. Nondeclaraive/procedural memory/implicit: refers to knowledge of procedures that are unconscious. Preference for novelity paradigms: tasks in which an infants preference, usually measured in looking ime, for a novel as opposed to a familiar simulus is used as an indicaion of memory for the familiar simulus. Conjugate-reinforcement procedure: ribbon is ied to infants ankle and connected to a mobile above the crib so baby learns to kick their feet to move it. Deferred imitaion: refers to imitaing a model ater a signiicant delay. Dentate gyrus: plays a role in memory and coninues to develop ater birth.
