Memory

Memory

1. Long term memory

   • Explicit
     • Definition: Memory that includes conscious recollections of events or facts that we have learned in the past. Also called declarative memory or conscious memory .
     • Encoding: Levels of Processing Craik and Lockhart (1973) incidental memory task -is the word in capitals letters - Rhyme: does the word rhyme -Sentence: does the word fit in the sentence
     • Episodic
     • Semantic
     • What engages the deepest level of Processing?
       • Self reference effects (SFE)
         • Rogers, Kuiper, and Kirker, 1977. the SRE is the tendency to have a better memory for information that relates to themselves in comparison to material that is less personal to themselves.
   • Implicit
     • Procedural
       • Allowing us to remember everyday tasks. It helps us go about our daily procedures and allows us to complete them without being consciously aware
     • Conditioning
       • Classical conditioning: How behaviour is shaped by the environment
         • For example: Pavlov and his dogs
     • Priming
       • Definition: A change in response to a stimulus caused by the previous presentation of same or similar stimulus.
       • Conceptual Priming - Priming that occurs when the enhancement caused by a priming stimulus is based on the meaning of the stimulus -For example, presentation of the word furniture causing a faster response to later presentation of the word chair
     • Definition: Memory that occurs when an experience affects a person's behaviour, even though the person is not aware that he or she has had the experience. Also called non declarative memory

2. Short term Memory

   • Central Executive
     • Episodic Buffer
       • Visual Spatial sketchpad
       • Phonological loop