Ch7 memory pt 2

• our permanant store of information
• includes facts, skills, experience
• long duration and unlimited capacity

tendency to remember words from the beginning of the list, word gets encoded into LTM

tendency to remember words from the end of the list, word is still stored in the STM

• Conscious memories we recall intentionally
• semantic memory
• episodic memory

knowlege of facts

autobiographical memory

• unconcious memory we dont reflect deliberately
• procedural memory
• conditioning
• habituation
• priming

memory of how to do things including motor skills and habits

• mechanism that transfers information from STM to LTM
• maintainace rehersal
• elaborative rehersal

mechanism that transfers information from LMT to STM

We remember information under the conditions present at learning

We recall information better in the same location

We recall information better in the same cognitve state we learned it in

• extremely vivid and detailed emotional memories
• usually important or tragic events

memories of events that never happened

creating false memories by providing misleading information after the event

inability to remember old information

inability to remember new things