Media and Memory Exam 1

Mere Exposure Effect

Tendency to develop greater liking for a person, object, or stimulus simply because it has been encountered repeatedly

Rachel Getting Married

Kym returns from rehab to her family home for her sister’s wedding. The celebration brings old grief, resentment, and family conflict into the open

Titanic

A wealthy young woman and a poor artist fall in love aboard a ship in 1912. Their romance unfolds as the ship strikes an iceberg and sinks

Desperately Seeking Susan

A bored suburban woman becomes fascinated with a free-spirited stranger and is mistaken for her after an accident causes amnesia. Their identities and relationships become entangled in New York City

50 First Dates

After a car accident, Lucy loses her memory of each day while she sleeps. Henry falls in love with her and devises ways to help her reconnect with him every morning.

Biometric Face Recognition

Identifying or verifying a person from measurable facial features with stored facial data

Recognition’s 3 essential elements

1. a person’s physical features

2. psychological characteristics

3. 3. shared memories

traumatic memories

Memories of events involving actual or threatened death, serious injury, or violence that may be intrusive, emotionally intense, fragmented or avoided

Anterograde Amnesia

An inability to form new lasting memories after the onset of an injury, illness, or other event, while many earlier memories may remain intact

Dissociative Amnesia

Inability to recall important autobiographical information, usually after stress or trauma, that is too extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetting or a neurological disorder

Flashbulb Memories

Vivid, detailed memories of the circumstances in which one learned about a surprising and consequential event. Confidence in them can be high even when details are inaccurate

Phonological Loop

The working memory subsystem that temporarily stores and rehearses speech based and sound based information, such as a phone number repeated silently

Fading Affect Bias

Tendency for the emotional intensity of negative autobiographical memories to fade more quickly over time than the emotional intensity of positive memories

Alzheimer’s Dementia Stage

A stage of Alzheimer’s disease in which cognitive decline becomes severe enough to interfere with independence in everyday life. Symptoms may affect memory, language, judgment, behavior, and the ability to complete routine tasks

Dementia

A broad syndrome of persistent cognitive decline that interferes with independence daily functioning, often affecting memory along with language, reasoning, or judgment

Mulholland Drive

After a car crash leaves a woman with amnesia, she and aspiring actress Betty try to discover her identity in Los Angeles. The mystery gradually gives way to a darker, fractured account of dream, desire, and loss

procedural memory

Long-term memory for skills and habits, such as riding a bicycle or typing, usually shown through performance rather than conscious recall

Born on the Fourth of July

Ron Kovic, a patriotic young man, enlists in the marines and is paralyzed in Vietnam. His difficult return home leads him towards antiwar activism

Memory Reconsolidation

the process by which a retrieve memory becomes temporarily changeable and is then stored again, allowing new information or emotion to modify it

Sketchpad

The working memory subsystem that temporarily holds and manipulated visual images and spatial information, such as the layout of a room or a route

Change Blindness

Failure to notice a substantial change in a visual scene, especially when attention is diverted or the change occurs during a brief interruption

Episodic Memory

Long-term memory for personally experienced events, including their time, place, and the feeling of reliving them

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

A doctor discovers that alien pods are replacing people with emotionless duplicates. As the takeover spreads, he races to escape and warn others.

Amygdala

is tied to memories and emotions

The central executive

The control system of working memory that directs attention, switches between tasks, and coordinated information from the subsystems and long-term memory

Cast Away

After a plane crash, FedEx executive Chuck Noland is stranded alone on a remote island. He struggles to survive and eventually attempts a return to civilization

Slumdog Millionaire

Jamal, a young man from Mumbai, appears on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? His life experiences explain how he knows each answer while officials suspect him of cheating

Mirror Neurons

Neurons that respond both when someone performs an action and when that person observes a similar action performed by another individual; they are associated with action and understanding and imitation

False memories

Memories for events or details that did not occur, or that occurred differently from how they are remembered

The Imposter

A French drifter, Frederic Bourdin, claims to be a Texas who disappeared three years earlier and is accepted by the boy’s family. Investigators gradually uncover contradictions in his story

Semantic Memory

Long-term memory for general knowledge, concepts, world meanings, and facts that are not ties to a particular personal experience

Pulp Fiction

Interwoven stories follow Los Angeles criminals, including hit men Vincent and Jules, boxer Butch, and gangster Marsellus Wallace. A series of violent and comic encounters reshapes their lives

Implicit Remembering

Memory that affects behavior or performance without conscious, intentional recollection of the earlier experience

Mild Cognitive Stage

A stage of Alzheimer’s disease marked by noticeable but relatively mild declines in memory or other thinking abilities. The person generally remains independent in daily activities, though they may need more effort or strategies to manage them

The Music Never Stopped

A father reconnects with his son, who has severe memory impairment after a brain tumor. Familiar music becomes a way to reach him and restore moments of connection

Preclinical Stage

Earliest stage of Alzheimer’s disease, in which brain changes associated with the disease are present but the person has no noticeable symptoms or impairment in daily functioning

On Golden Pond

An aging professor and his wife spend the summer at their lakeside home while he confronts memory problems and a strained relationship with his daughter. Caring for her fiancé’s son helps the family reconnect

Ribot’s Law

The patter in which recent memories are more vulnerable to loss than remote memories, so older memories are often preserved better than newer ones

Working Memory

Limited capacity mental workspace that briefly holds information and actively uses or manipulates it during reasoning, learning, and comprehension

Away from Her

After Fiona develops Alzheimer’s disease, she enters a care home and forms a close attachment to another resident. Her husband must face the changing nature of their marriage and her memory

Elaborative rehearsal

Encoding information by connecting it to meaning, prior knowledge, examples, or personal experience rather than merely repeating

Groundhog Day

Weatherman Phil Connors becomes trapped reliving the same day in Punxsutawney Repetition eventually lets him, change, and form deeper connections

Processing Speed

The rate at which a person can take in, interpret, and respond to information; it commonly slows with normal aging

SHORT ESSAY:

Choose one of the following films: 50 First Dates, Titanic, or Slumdog Millionaire.

Explain how the film demonstrates the importance of memory in shaping a person's experiences, relationships, or identity. Use specific events or characters from your chosen film and connect them to at least one concept about memory discussed in class.

o   In the movie Slumdog Millionaire, Jamal has gone through some troubling times and a lot of life experiences between his mother dying, living on the streets with his brother, getting involved in the crime world, and having small jobs until he joins the gameshow. Jamal is able to use his traumatic memories, which are emotionally intense, to help him answer the questions.

o   Jamal ends up being arrested and accused of cheating because every question has lined up to his past experiences.

o   Jamal is having flashbulb memories to help him recall his past that he may have learned something out of, which helps him answer the questions.

o   In the trailer, it mentions that millionaires are not even to the level that Jamal has made but his memories of his past experiences have made him become the only person to get as far as he has.

USES EPISODIC MEMORY

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