Memory!
11-2-17
● Memory - the ability to retain learned behavior or knowledge
● The process of memory
○ Three control processes -
○ Encoding - how info is transformed to be including in memory (like taking notes,
making copies, and preparing info to be filed)
○ Storage - how info is maintained in memory until is is needed; (like a filing
cabinet)
○ Retrieval - your effort to access previously stored info; how info is regathered
when it is needed for a new situation
● Memory type examples
○ Semantic memory - the name of the president during the civil war, abe lincoln
○ Procedural memory - how to physically ride your bike
○ Episodic memory - how you spent your last birthday
● Declarative memory -
○ Conscious and deliberate memory
○ Knowledge of facts, rules, concepts, and events
○ Explicit - consciously aware of it
○ System 2 thought
● Procedural memory -
○ Knowledge about skills or how to do things
○ Becomes automatic
○ Implicit - just part of what we do
○ System 1 though
● Episodic memory
○ Recollections of personal events and experiences; diff from everyone else's
● Semantic memory
○ General knowledge about the world
●
● Memory system:
○ Sensory memory - momentarily stores incoming sensory information
11-2-17
● Memory - the ability to retain learned behavior or knowledge
● The process of memory
○ Three control processes -
○ Encoding - how info is transformed to be including in memory (like taking notes,
making copies, and preparing info to be filed)
○ Storage - how info is maintained in memory until is is needed; (like a filing
cabinet)
○ Retrieval - your effort to access previously stored info; how info is regathered
when it is needed for a new situation
● Memory type examples
○ Semantic memory - the name of the president during the civil war, abe lincoln
○ Procedural memory - how to physically ride your bike
○ Episodic memory - how you spent your last birthday
● Declarative memory -
○ Conscious and deliberate memory
○ Knowledge of facts, rules, concepts, and events
○ Explicit - consciously aware of it
○ System 2 thought
● Procedural memory -
○ Knowledge about skills or how to do things
○ Becomes automatic
○ Implicit - just part of what we do
○ System 1 though
● Episodic memory
○ Recollections of personal events and experiences; diff from everyone else's
● Semantic memory
○ General knowledge about the world
●
● Memory system:
○ Sensory memory - momentarily stores incoming sensory information
