PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 45: Fear Conditioning, Implicit Memory, Prefrontal Cortex

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jens C Pruessner

Document Summary

Procedural or motor memory: a type of implicit memory that involved motor skills and behavioural habits. Prospective memory: remembering to do something, sometime in the future. All this information is stored in networks of neurones in the brain. Encoding: participants are asked to consider a list of words according to how the words are printed, how they sound and what they mean. It turns out that words processed at the semantic level are remembered better, because it activates more brain region, and the more brain regions are activated, the better the memory. Schema: a hypothetical cognitive structure that helps us perceive, organize, process and use information. When we retrieve information about a certain person or event, everything we know will be retrieved along with the story we try to remember. From aristotle: our knowledge of the world is organized so that things related in meaning are linked in storage.