Human memory and Processing

Human memory and Processing

1. Scoville and Milner, 1953

   • H.M.
   • Hippocampus removed on both sides and associated frontal corte
   • Couldn't form new memories

2. Atkinson and Shiffrin, 1986

   • Information processing approach

3. Craik & Lockhart (1972), Craik & Tulving (1975)

   • levels of processing
   • PPs answered a series of questions
   • Structural/shallow processing eg. is the word in capital letters?
   • Phonemic e.g. does the word rhyme with weight?
   • Category e.g. is the word a type of fish?
   • Sentence/Deepest e.g. would the word fit in this sentence?
   • the deeper the level of processing the better the recall

4. Episodic Vs Semantic memory

   • EM: autobiographical, past experience
   • SM: words & symbols, the meanings of things

5. Declarative Vs Procedural knowledge

   • DK: facts, schemas, "knowledge based"
   • PK: skills, "knowledge how"

6. Explicit Vs Implicit Knowledge

   • EK: knowledge with conscious awareness
   • IK: knowledge without conscious awareness

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