PSY-3216 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Henry Molaison, Cerebral Cortex, Explicit Memory
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Memory: learning a relatively permanent change in behavior resulting from experience it"s a process, memory the ability to recall or recognize previous experience product of learning, emotion rapid learning and salient memory quick process of learning what makes us scared and happy, etc. When you work with information in short term storage, you consolidate it with old information so you can apply things and remember it better. Working memory is where you can remember and also process store more, process less; store less, process more. We retrieve by getting memories from long-term memory and making it into a working memory so we can process. Episodic: remembering your first day of school. Semantic: knowing the capital of france: nondeclarative (implicit): things you know that you can show by doing. Skill learning: knowing how to ride a bicycle. Priming: being more likely to use a word you heard recently. Conditioning: conditioning salivating when you see a favorite food.
