Psychology / Unit 6 Psych 0668 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Procedural Memory
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The idea
Procedural memory holds learned skills and actions that are performed without conscious recall of the steps.
In practice
Typing a familiar password is faster by hand than by naming the letters aloud.
Where people slip
Attending consciously to a procedural skill usually degrades its performance.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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