Week Five

Question 1

False Memories

Answer 1

Research shows that a large proportion of memories are faulty in some way, even ones that we think we remember really well

Question 2

Patient HM

Answer 2

The patient suffered from epileptic seizures and as a result had his bilateral medial temporal lobes removed, namely the hippocampus and the amygdala. Following this, patient HM suffered from short term memory loss and was unable to form new memories. In fact, his declarative long term memory was not functional.

Question 3

Short term to long term memory

Answer 3

information is introduced and kept in short term memory, if this information is then rehearsed it may convert to long term. However, interference and decay may also subject the information to being forgotten.

Question 4

Taxonomy of Long term memory

Answer 4

Split into declarative and non-declarative

Question 5

declarative memory

Answer 5

Declarative long term memory is what you can consciously recall.

- Declarative memory is split into episodic memory and semantic memory. 
- Episodic memory is you can remember what happened.  You have a picture of what happened. 
- Semantic memory involves facts.

Question 6

non-declarative memory

Answer 6

• Non-declarative is something you cant recall (recognised a face but cant tell where from): cannot clarify but is familiar.
  • Non-declarative is something we know but don’t necessarily know that we know.
    Split into priming, procedural and conditioning.
    priming creates an experience that makes things easier or more difficult to recall.
  • Procedural memory is like how to ride a bike.
  • Conditioning is the ability to learn associations between certain things.

Question 7

Short term memory capacity

Answer 7

the capacity for normal people is 7 plus or minus 2. However, this decays quickly without rehersal. P

Question 8

Primacy effect

Answer 8

reflect information acquired early and rehearsed more

Question 9

recency effect

Answer 9

most recently experienced & still available

Question 10

Working memory: Baddley and Hitch Model

Answer 10

Working memory is split into the…

• phonological loop
• visuospacial sketchpad
• episodic buffer

Question 11

episodic memory

Answer 11

Memory for personally experienced events that occurred in particular place at a specific time (defined by Tulving, 1972)

Question 12

Semantic memory is acontextual meaning…

Answer 12

Independent of where or when the information was encoded.