Episodic Memory Flashcards
(19 cards)
episodic memory
memory of personal experiences that can be explictly stated, consisting of autobiographical events and their context
mental time travel
capacity to mentally reconstruct personal events from the past as well as to imaging possible scenarios in the future
what does mental time travel allow us to do
allows us to access things in our early memories, recent memories, future events, imagined events, reminiscence bump, flashbulb memories
reminiscence bump
superior memory for events that occured in aodlescence and early childhood
flashbulb memory
emotionally significant or shocking
measuring memory - instructed encoding
participants instructed to memorise information
explicit retrieval
participants instructed to retrieve the information they memorisedi
incidental encoding
participants think about ht einformation but are not instructed to memorise it
implicit retrieval
during testing, they are asked to complete an activity seemingly unrelated to memory
direct memory tests
recall, free recall, serial recall, cued recall
indirect memory tasks
two seeminly unrelated tasks
levels of processing - encoding effects - craik and tulvings
suggested the depth of processing (structural, phonemic, category) could aid the retrieval from memory.
Processing could be shallow or deep.
Deeper processing at encoding can aid memory
spacing effect
how much you are engaging with content and the time and period you engage with this content
massed practice
single lenghty, sutdy period
distributed practice
multiple, short study periods
serial position effect
information encoded first or last is recalled best
what did roediger and karpickes testing effect show about retrieval
retrieval practice improves memory for delays longer than a few minutes
encoding specificity
matching context and encodiung and retrieval aids episodic memory
transfer appropriate processing
matching processing at encoding and retrieval aids episodic memory
