Ch 7- Memory Flashcards

Question

Flashbulb memories (mem distortion)

Answer 1

Episodic Vivid memories that capture the CIRCUMSTANCES you were in during rlly stimulating events (egotistical) EX: DETAILS of what I did while papi was choking Distorted because they repeat story SO MUCH they dont recall it the same, and construe the details because it was so intense but still keep in long term most

Answer 2

Memory for event, but not the circumstances (where you encountered it, time, place, person) EX: you think you remember walking your dog at a young age, but you aren’t DIRECTLY recalling it, you’re recalling the memory of hearing your parents tell its story You don’t remember the circumstances directly, you only directly remember your friends telling you about those circumstances This childhood loss-> lack of language (frontal lobes underdeveloped) KW: cryptoamnesia

Answer 3

Same idea with the storytelling parents, but the storytelling parents is a primary source and you just plagiarized because you !!! You’re forgetting so bad that you forget the memory, remember only through storyteller, THEN you forget THAT memory o being told and think it was really yours thought you made it yourself but its not a DIRECT memory

Answer 4

Misleading info-> distorted memory of event Not accurate to the memory itself, it’s accurate to the power of language When something changes, we just feel the need to believe it or else we might be going crazy (Mandela effect) EX: power of language-> “smashed” makes people memorize more violence explicitly

Answer 5

Process info form external world -> encode into info your brain can recognize -> stored (personal, imperfect) 3 processing phases: Encoding-> meaningful neural code that can be used Storage (lasts a millisecond or lifetime Retrieval -> access info form storage (successful if storage is successful) Long and short term ^^

Answer 6

Neurons and synapse change overtime (unlike computers) Extremely subjective (process, storage, retrieval) Memory is what seemed meaningful to YOU

Answer 7

Info flows from sensory, to short, to long to maintain particular amount of info for particular length of time How info is processed when its stored from one store to another

Answer 8

Senses- encoding through the sense by which it was received Held VERY briefly (brief maintenance) in sensory organ before it moves into short term or long term (mostly short term) Let’s us have unified experience - each sensory memory is held for about 1/3 second but auditory is 3-4 seconds World as continuous stream of discreet sensations

Answer 9

Use info immediately (holds 5-9 encoded things for less than 20 seconds Increase as kid, decrease as adult

Answer 10

During SHORT TERM Increase duration and capacity of short term storage Without this, only be able to hold a little in short term at a time Caappleballsquare head Chunking- best for working memory (numbers) increases mem span of it and facilitates retrieval Repetition- The very first things you hear when called to attention beforehand (preparation time), WORKING memory works best there and diminished (gets tired) as you go down list * can also be for long term tho right??? ??? ???

Answer 11

Prefrontal cortex- working Hippo- consolidation, spatial Temporal lobe- explicit mem Amygdala- implicit- emotional mems (trauma) Office- are the brain regions SPECIFICALLY where neurons go in order to BEGIN their processes? (Implicit memory, explicit, all those categories) Cerebellum - implicit procedural (motor mems)

Answer 12

Access from LT Revival cues- context-dependent memory cues: give context in which info was encoded (if context matches, you’ll be more likely to recall) State dependent memory cues: helps with internal moods/ psychological states associated with it, mnemonics: (use associatively learned info ((multiple choice questions are easiest)) - method of loci- mnemonics but with physical locations you’ve physically explored (remembering unrelated locations by visualizing a location- structure of brain and house) Dopey, grumpy, doc, happy, sleepy, bashful

Answer 13

Deficit in explicit memory (LT, events and semantic) / memory for knowing he had learned something NEW Alll memories kept——damage-> from then on memory impairment Keep implicit part of LT memory

Answer 14

Chunks together SIMILIAR info that are then used for:: organizing, perceiving, processing, + USING it @@@ for LONG TERM reference @@@ ** REFERENCE makes it a structure, not a system*** <- this is imp _ it was another card

Answer 15

Sensory input -> sensory storage -> attention and encoding-> short term-> attention and encoding -> long term Attention and encoding breaks= working memory (repeating and chunking)

Answer 16

Visually eyes on her but still paying SPATIAL attention to him VISUALLY on her and attention on her

Answer 17

Spotlight leads attention to stage (Expected cue location- most effective attention maintenance and therefore more time more efficient neural work)