Study Guide (4): Unit 2 - PSYC 311 (Cognitive Psychology): Non-Declarative Memory

* - not in the study guide

What are 2 Non-Declarative Memory Systems (that we’ll be tested on)?

• Procedural Memory

• Priming

What is Procedural Memory? Give an example. What part of your Brain supports Procedural Memory?

• Procedural Memory is a trainable form of long-term memory for skills, habits, and motor actions that is learned through repetition.

  • ex) Catching a softball with a glove

• Your Cerebellum and Striatum supports Procedural Memory

What is Priming? Describe an example of Priming influencing future behavior.

Priming is the effect in which recent experience of a stimulus facilitates or inhibits later processing of the same or a similar stimulus

• Or, a psychological phenomena where exposure to one stimulus (the prime) unconsciously influences how a person responds to a subsequent stimulus (the target)

• *This makes us more vulnerable to explotion

• *Distributed throughout the 4 lobes, but can be seen in the Neocortex (outermost layer)

  • ex) Playing soft jazz music over loudspeakers in a transit system reduced rates of littering and vandalism because the audio primed a calm, relaxed state of mind

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