11 9 15 PSY 317 Notes Housekeeping Extra Credit reminder o You should have received an email with information o There has also been an announcement posted in Blackboard Exam 3 on Wednesday of next week Nov 18 o Bring your own scantron and 2 pencils Assignment 4 released this week Potential extra credit question on exam Elizabeth Banks is Prof Miller s celebrity crush Spreading Activation Activation when a node is receiving strong input and fires o Remember feature detector models Response threshold point at which the node fires o Activates itself and its neighbors Class example when we created our own web last week Retrieval cues o Can see network activation process when someone is having trouble recalling information Actress girlfriend 30 Rock Alec Baldwin child Tina Fey Tracy Morgan hat guy Elizabeth Banks o Explains context specific learning environment activating similar nodes Empirical Evidence for Memory Networks Lexical decision tasks o Decide if both letter strings are words yes no Ex Bread and Butter Yes Ex Bread and Kitten Yes but slower than bread and butter Ex Bread and Tafe No Semantically related v unrelated words o Faster reaction time with related words Different Forms of Memory Testing Recognition v Recall o Recall provide all of the words that you remember No cues or hints are given many of the in class memory examples Requires memory search o Recognition which faces did you see 11 9 15 Identify what you saw out of learning items and distracters facial recognition experiment o Source memory recollections of where you gained that knowledge o Familiarity that knowledge seems like I ve learned it Implicit Memory Sometimes we learn without realizing that we learn o Often no source memory attached with this knowledge o Indirect memory testing Hypothesis o What are implicit memories o The book details how they can be altered fair game for the exam o Through experience we build pathways that form connections Processing fluency using a pathway more and more improves how this pathway will carry information Building this pathway makes the task seem easier We want to know why it is easier thus chalking it up to familiarity Amnesia Hierarchy of Memory Types o Memory Explicit Memory Episodic Memory o Memory for specific events Semantic Memory o General knowledge not tied to any place Implicit Memory Procedural Memory o Knowing how memory for skills o Changes in perception and belief caused by previous Priming experience Perceptual Learning experience Classical Conditioning o Recalibration of perceptual systems as a result of o Learning about associations among stimuli