Memory and Language-Lecture 7

Question 1

Long Term Memory Systems

Answer 1

composed of Explicit (declarative) and Implicit (nondeclarative) memory-which are each composed of different systems

Question 2

Explicit Memory

Answer 2

conscious recollection of prior experience
related to how people retrieve from memory
Consists of Procedural memory (skills), Priming, Classical Conditioning
Examples of explicit: Free Recall; cued Recall; forced-choice recognition; yes/no recognition; Word Stem completion (if asked from alist of words)

Question 3

Implicit Memory

Answer 3

Result of the test depends on previous experience, but not on awareness that memory is being used
Consists of episodic and Semantic memory
Examples of Implicit: Lexical decision (is this a word); Word Fragment completion; Word Stem completion (if no list, allowed to chose any word that fits word stem)

Question 4

Episodic Memory

Answer 4

Part of explicit
Recollection of where and when events happened in one’s own life (content and context)
Attached to time

Question 5

Semantic Memory

Answer 5

Part of explicit
A person’s knowledge about the world: Facts, cognitive skills
Not attached to time
Retrieval: Without conscious recollection of when/where learned

Question 6

Schema

Answer 6

Part of Semantic Memory
Integrated knowledge structure for things
-Captures commonly encountered aspects of life
-Allows us to form expectations
-Helps us to draw inderences (reading/listening)
-affects how we perceive visual scenes

Question 7

Repetition priming

Answer 7

Part of Implicit Memory

Faster/more accurate to respod to an item when that same item was previously presented

Question 8

Classical Conditioning

Answer 8

Part of Implicit Memory
Unconditioned stimulus (happens without training)
Conditioned Stimulus (trained to happen)