Chapter 6: Memory

Psychology Ch.6-Memory renew operant conditioning: Your adding something that is desirable positive reinforcement 2 to see behavior* negative reinforcement J agour porttive Punishment negative Punishement Go decreases likelihood of behanor. memory. Stoning into rmation, retriening info (recall), movies por culture, bram, leaming, Short term/longtem, core memones, encoding information, problem solving. hippocampus amygdala (limbic system)-Prefrontal cortexi storage/organization, forgetting music smells, alzheimer's, repressed memories, repetitive exposure to memonce something (repetition), runtoring neuspathway. memory provuss by which we encode, Store and retrieve information. Oencode exposure (initial recording of sensory information) • corect ander ② Storage Sensory datalinfo sared for later use (long-term memory storage empacstry is Virfumy intimite retrieval: remembering information 2 types of sinsong memones. Cight vision iconic mernory) sound hearing lechoic memong working memong remembering a phore # for a few seconds before dialing 11. Someone hits your car, you look a license plates and remember it for just on little before writing it down. (Short time suonds) minutes) Short term memong remembering information for a few weeks/months. long term memory relating the matenul to your own life, coming. up I silly mernory tricks placing importance or significance on it. relatively permanent Bas Ex: driving down the highway basic. *may be difficult to retrieve. Chunking grouping of information that can be stored in short-term memong ex Phone NBABYPOX Rehearsal repetition of information that has entered Short-term memony (allows transfer of info to long term) EX: memorizing car plates moreshort? Speech (certaw lines)??? Eldorrative rehearsal Info is considered and organized. (script speech) mnemomes organizing into in a way that matus it more likely to be remembered (SAME) Baddeley model of working memory Visvospatial sketchpad. Uses most panetal and Occipital Hong-term memory Storehouse of almost unlimited capacity. primacy effect remember into at beginning of list & last first and last on a list middle into more likely to be forgotten. > Decterative meming for factual information. Concrete, objective, Quantitive. also Known as ExpliCH > Somantic-general lenowledge, facts (date, your address, what car you drive) >pisodic events (birthday parties, gett going to wedding, graduation) > procedural memory for skills and habits Implicit-Implled 5 really need to bring moch/thought or consciousness to remember it / mont need to remember actively. more passive- Semantic networks activation of one •Memay activates Other memories eed the relationshusters of interconected information. glass * consists of. seles reenha between preces of information dirt $test engram. Hippocampus forming memones memory consolidation" Amygdala emotional memory (fear string emotions) Long-term potentiation. consiladation-memories become fixed & stable in long-term meming make sense of it what causes difficulties Hailures remembening -TBI -old age lack of steep. -Substance abus - Stress > For an alcoholic blackout there's & problem in remembering, There is memong to recall that was encoded. TIP-of-the-tounge inability to recall Info that you know. 1976 at in the tip of my tounge!!! Retrival cues Stimulys that alows us to recall info that is in long-term memory more easily. recall specific piece of Information must be retrieved (fill in the blank test Questions) recognition occurs when one is presented with a stimulus. They have already been - multiple choice exposed to and can identity. test Question Flashbulb memones Fautobiographical, episodic Smemone's that are very spuific Usually involving emotional can easily be recalled with vivid imagery. ex: childbirth, near death expenence, funeral, moving to a new country. car accident, concert expenence, world event, vacation Source amnesia occurs when individual has a memong for some matenal but cannot recall whether he or shu enuuntered (remembering something Infantile amnesial general forgetting of events before the age of 10. nomifit Schemas :schemes organized budes of into A Kind of ITk rem in that the repe way information is interpreted, brainstorms? gerend bramstom Stored, recalled. What comes to mind when you think of Setting? Ex:rare friends, dinks, dmgs. Script procedure lorder. Imemory in the courtroom eyewitness. -emors can result in mistaken identity prone to memory-related emors due to specific wording of Questions. false memones cantake place. repressed us false memones repressed Shocking recollection of events pushed into subconscious false the memoret. autobangraphical memong-recollection of our own life experiences. Some people remember every second of thar life. memony foulure Forgetting allows us to retain whats important. Failure of encoding black out. Fallure of decay 10st of memory through non-use. Interference Co-dependent forgetting. proactive interferance information learned cariver retroactive interference disrupts the recall of nemer into todany Ex: park in n Parking spot brengdang but you acudently go to these You parked yesterday "remember an de spoje Mtormation teamed later disrupts the retrieval of Into learned previously Ex: Harn bpanish then french forget the spamde Alzheimer's disease causes dementia dementia is a disorder or disease in itself. Dementia refers to a cluster of symptoms that tend to ecur together. amnesia memory loss that occure within other cognitive/ mental difficulties. >Retrograde: alaility to form new memones but & recall old ones >Anterograde ability to recall old info / memories but NOT form rew ones Korsakofs syndrome: long term alcoholics, indudes hallucinations. [Vit B deficiency