PSYC 311 Module 3

Memory

An internal repository of stored information

Non-declarative memory

Action memory (tying shoes, riding bike)

Significance of “selfie”

Didn’t used to be a thing, but now evokes meaning from the word

Long-term memory (LTM)

• A system for permanently storing, managing, and retrieving information

• May be available for a lifetime

• Unlimited potential, but maybe not unlimited resource

Short-term memory

Working, procedural, semantic, episodic

Working memory

Experience → “I want to remember”

Procedural memory

Non-declarative - riding bike, tying shoes

Semantic memory

Knowledge that is not tied to a place or time - capital of France is Paris

Episodic memory

“You won’t believe what happened today”

3 stages of memory encoding

1. Take in information all over the brain (experience)

2. Frontal lobe activity for elaboration

3. i. Procedural (non-declarative) ii. episodic (declarative)

Stage 1 of memory encoding

Take in information from all over the brain (experience)

Stage 2 of memory encoding

Frontal lobe activity for elaboration

Stage 3 of memory encoding

• Procedural (non-declarative) - premotor/primary motor/ somatosensory cortex

• Episodic (declarative) - Hippocampus

Memory system model

Elaboration

interpreting information, connecting it with other information, and “mulling it over”

HTFLWP vs. HaTFLeWuP

Bringing meaning to something that didn’t have meaning - easier to encode

Craik and Tulving processing

Shallow, intermediate, deep processing results in good, better, best memory

Generation effect

increased likelihood for memory when participate generates the item or mnemonic device used

Spacing effect

Distributed practice > massed practice