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Psychology / Unit 6   Psych 0662 short lesson, about 20 seconds

Implicit Memory

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The idea

Implicit memory holds information that influences behavior without being consciously recalled.

In practice

Riding a bicycle after twenty years off one requires knowledge that cannot be put into words.

Where people slip

Implicit memory can survive damage that destroys explicit memory entirely. The systems are separable.

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