Memory Part 1

Memory Part 1

1. Explicit Memory

   • semanatic
     • general knowledge
     • things you know e.g peoples names
   • episodic
     • what you remember
     • special events
   • conscious
   • double dissascoation
     • brain damaged patients
       • damage to frontal lobes
         • could remember names but not events
   • flashbulb memories
     • vivid recall of events

2. stages of memory

   • acquisiton
     • incidental learning
       • accidental
     • intentional learning
       • persistant
   • retrieval
   • storage

3. Implicit Memory

   • procedural
     • unconscious or automatic
     • e.g brain damage patients get better at tasks with practice, even though they do not remember how to perform task
   • priming
     • influences our perception and thoughts unconsciously
     • fragment completeion e.g 1. C-O-O-I-I 2. M-U-A-C

4. Capacity

   • Seven plus or minus two
     • only remember around 7 things at a time
       • 7 'chunks;
         • how much you remember