PSY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Iconic Memory, Sensory Memory, Implicit Memory

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Chapter 8: studying memory, memory in psychology: complex multi-processes that involves mental processes (3): Retrieval: get info out of storage: can be adaptive and maladaptive (ex. Trauma) (effects functioning: explicit memory (declarative memory): Implicit memory: memory without consciousness yet affects behaviours: procedural memory: things we learn gradually that become automatic, measure memory: Recall: does not give any helpful cues. Relearning: restudy a chapter you already studied and you learn it quicker: building info, 2 ways we encode (dual processing): Automatic processing: get info in without consciousness. Effortful processing: putting time and energy to remember. Elaborative processing: become curious and do further associations, elaborate and: ebbinghaus: first to study memory: created nonsense syllables and studied info he"s never understand info then you memorize seen before, tricks to memorize: Process visually, acoustically and semantically (focus on meaning) Chunking: take info and break it down in blocks of small info. Mnemonic devices: strategy or techniques used to remember.