pysch

Question 1

What did Henry Roediger point out?

Answer 1

When people use the term remembering, referring to a process where they are consciously recalling things from past- declarative

Question 2

What is declarative memory?

Answer 2

Conscious memory we have for facts and events. eg- knowing the capital of france

Question 3

what is procedural memory?

Answer 3

a type of memory not open to conscious recollection but we see in our skilled behaviour and habits - eg tying shoe laces, riding a bike

Question 4

What are the two types of memory in declarative?

Answer 4

Episodic
Semantic

Question 5

What is semantic memory?

Answer 5

General knowledge about the world

Question 6

What is episodic?

Answer 6

Memories we also store memories of things we have thought and experiences we have had. These personal recollections of episodes of our lives make up

Question 7

Who is HM?

Answer 7

-27 year old who suffered epilepsy
- carried out drastic operation to remove most of his hippocampus

Question 8

How did the operation affect HM?

Answer 8

He could remember most events before operation but none after - unable to make new LTM

Question 9

Tuluing evidence for separate episodic and semantic memories

Answer 9

• Performed brain scans on 6 volunteers
  -Found when participants were using episodic memory, part of the front cortex was active
• compared to when they used their semantic memory the back cortex was active

Question 10

Heindel evidence for separate episodic and semantic memories

Answer 10

-Investigated learning in people with huntingtons disease - progressive degenerative disease of the brain
- Found that the patients had no problem learning new facts but had severe problems recalling old ones

Question 11

What is forgetting?

Answer 11

MSM states that LTM has unlimited capacity- but we know that we forget info stored in the LTM
But does that mean memories are gone (availability?)
or we just can’t reach them (accessibility)

Question 12

What is interference ?

Answer 12

When one memory disturbs the ability to recall another, this may result in forgetting or distorting one or the other or both

Question 13

What is proactive interference?

Answer 13

When past learning interferes with later learning, eg when you rearrange the location of items in a room

Question 14

What is retroactive interference?

Answer 14

When recent learning disrupts earlier learning