Memory Flashcards
What are flashbulb memories?
Vivid, detailed and highly accurate.
What did brown and Kulik 1977 find?
Flashbulb memories different to others in longetivity, accuracy, reliance on special neural mechanism.
What did bohannon 1988 find?
Flashbulb memories decay, stored in LTM,
In the amagdala
What did Conway 1994 find?
Bohannon didn’t use an event that people felt impacted their lives,
Flashbulb memories need a personal impact
What’s explicit/ declarative memory?
A memory you bc an explain needs conscious recollection,
Semantic and episodic
What’s semantic memory?
Doesn’t relate to particular time or place.
What is episodic memory?
Memories for events or episodes in our lives,
Certain time or place
Autobiographical memory
Personal memories
What is the reminiscence bump?
Large numbers of memories coming from between ages 10-30
What is implicit/ procedural memory?
Learned skills,
Can be automatic
What is encoding?
Transforming information so that it can enter and be retained in the memory system
What’s storage?
Retaining information in memory
What is retrieval?
Recovering information stored in memory
What is sensory memory?
Store of sensory information.
Iconic memory is for visual information.
Echoic memory is auditory information
What did spelling 1960 find?
Iconic memory
Letters flashed for 50 milliseconds,
Average of 4 recalled,
Iconic store either limited capacity or decays rapidly,
Semantic knowledge isn’t in iconic memory.
What do image based models do?
Encode structured templates of viewpoint
