Lecture 7

Question 1

What is declarative memory? (Long term memory)

Answer 1

Facts, data, events (states, dates)

Question 2

What are the 2 subcategories of declarative memory?

Answer 2

1. Episodic memory: information about experiences, specific events, how it relates to us
2. Semantic memory: statements of facts and knowledge of the world

Question 3

What’s procedural memory? (Long term memory)

Answer 3

How to do things (ride a bike, read, walking)

Question 4

What are the 2 subcategories for procedural memory?

Answer 4

Motor: procedures that underlie motor skills
Cognitive: procedures that underlie cognitive skills

Question 5

Experiment: INDIVIDUAL AND REFERENCE IN PERSON MEMORY
What are the 2 hypothesis on how the behaviors are encoded in memory?

Answer 5

Hypothesis 1: single representation
One note about the person and consolidate them to the same note about all the events
Hypothesis 2: linked representation
We learned it separately so the 2 people will be seen as individuals and what they did but they will have a link to them

Question 6

What’s the takeaway between Experiment: INDIVIDUAL AND REFERENCE IN PERSON MEMORY

Answer 6

The way you organize episodic memory about different people in our mind can be highly flexible depending on how you learn about them in the first place

Question 7

whatst the experiment of HOW IS EPISODIC VS SEMANTIC MEMORY OF A PERSON REPRESENTED

Answer 7

Learning that the person is kind and thoughtless
learning about 2 traits indicted by different behaviors
Hypothesis 1: Semantic memory is encoded independently as the episodic memory (what person actually did) - traits and behaviors represented independently
Hypothesis 2: behaviors are clustered by traits
they are interrelated because both two traits relate to different actions from that person (kind and thoughtless)

Question 8

whats the THE SCHEMATIC PROCESSING PRINCIPLE

Answer 8

Semantic first then episodic memory there will be clusters if you try to remember
If opposite then you will remember independently

Question 9

what were the findings of SCHEMATIC EFFECTS ON PERSON MEMORY

Answer 9

Behavior is congruent with trait schema: remembered well
Behavior is incongruent with trait schema: remembered well and even better
Behavior is irrelevant with trait schema: people have more trouble remembering these behaviors
Takeaway: in context where you learn about someones trait first and then learn about behavior there is evidence that you indeed use this knowledge to help you organize the memory of the behavior

People use semantic memory as strategy to help organize behaviors