Memory Flashcards
Different processes or strategies in memory. Discuss if memory for skills is the same as remembering peices of info. Do we remember personal things in the same way we remember facts.
Learning requires………… Into memory?
Storing Information
(Kolb & Wishaw)
Learning and memory definitions
Learning - relatively permanent change in behaviour that results from experience.
Memory - the ability to recall or reorganise previous experience.
3 types of memory all important for learning but at different stages
Long-term memory (held indefinitely) Encoding into memory Working memory (held briefly, access to long term, requires attention, manipulate & organise thoughts 'on-line', frontal cortex)
The three stages of memory?
- Encoding - transforming info into a memory representation
- Consilidation - stabilising a memory trace after learning
- Retrieval - reactivation of the stored memory representation
What does Amnesia cause?
Loss of impairment in memory
No loss of general intelligence
The two types of Amnesia?
Anterograde Amnesia - loss of memory ability for things/events after the brain damage, inability to form new memories
Retrograde Amnesia - loss of memory ability for things/events before the brain damage, inability to remember things from past
What test did patient H.M do after brain surgery for epilepsy?
Mirror drawing test
Name all divisions in long-term memory
Short term > long term
v
Non-declarative/procedural, Implicit
(Things you know that you can show by doing)
Declarative, Explicit (things that you know
that you can tell others)
v
Episodic (e.g. remembering first day at uni)
Semantic (e.g. Knowing the capital of Poland)
Is memory for skills the same as remembering pieces of info
No
What other fractionation of memory does H.M support?
Differences between STM/Working memory & LTM processes.
What can explicit memories be about?
Facts (general factual knowledge) - semantic
Experiences - episodic
People in your life
What can implicit memories be about?
Memory for skills, movement sequence
Ability to recall how to perform tasks & behaviours
