Memory Flashcards
Explicit Memory
Conscious, episodic of personal and autobiographical factors
Implicit Memory
unconscious, skills, habits, priming & conditioning
Implicit VS Explicit
Implicit memory demonstrates knowledge (skill, conditioned response) but cannot retrieve it whereas explicit subjects can consciously retrieve something and indicate they know it is correct
3 Ways to test Explicit and Implicit Memory
- verbal (ambiguous words)
- visual (shown images)
- motor (pursuit rotor task)
Two categories of memory
Declarative and procedural
What is declarative memory
Explicit, conscious. Often lost in amnesia. Ability to actively recall
What is procedural memory
Implicit, unconscious. Ability to recall a movement sequence or perform an act or behaviour
3 Stages of Memory
Encoding
Processing
Storing
Encoding for Procedural/unconscious/implicit
bottom up and data driven
Encoding for declarative/conscious/explicit
top down and conceptually driven
Processing Memories
Short term includes frontal lobe
Long term includes temporal lobe
Storing Visual Memories
ventral temporal lobe
Storing recollection of actions
middle temporal gyrus
Bottum-up
encoded same as perceived
Top-down
perceptions, what we make of what we see
