PSY 308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Echoic Memory, Semantic Memory, Episodic Memory
22 Apr 2016
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Memories of experiences and the lessons you"ve drawn from them. We remember events that re ect positively on us. Deny and distort memories that don"t t your self-concept. We judge something to be more frequent when a memory is vivid. Reading about a car accident in the media makes it seem like it happens much more frequently to you. When a distraction comes along, our memories tend to forget who we were talking to or what we were doing. Storing memories timeline (associative networks: learning acquisition, retention interval, retrieval. Best way to study is just to have an outline a couple of words of a chapter or subject can trigger the memories that are associated with the subject. Event > sensory memory > short term/ working memory > long term memory. Sensory memory photographic and echoic memory (they don"t last very long only 2 second)
