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| episodic memories |
memories of events |
| semantic memories |
memories of facts or concepts |
| procedural memory |
motor skills |
| emotional memory |
learned emotional responses |
| implicit memory |
we know things, but the knowlege is unconscious |
| explicit memory |
we know things and know that we know them |
| primacy effect |
the fact that early information about someone wweghs more heavily than later info in influencing one's impression |
| STM is stored? |
prefrontal cortex and temporal lob |
| LTM is stored? |
in both subcortical and cortical structures |
| Interference |
Learning one thing can interfere with learning another |
| retroactive interference |
new information interferes with information in LTM |
| proactive interference |
info already in LTM interferes with new learning |
| context dependent |
remembering in the same context |
| state-dependent |
remembering while in the same emotional state |
| chunking |
grouping itmes into meaningful units |
| working memory |
same as STM |
| encoding |
how information is stored |
| how is long term memory encoded |
by meaning |
| hos is stm encoded |
phonetically |
| herman ebbinghaus |
19th century psychologist interested in studying memory |
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