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Memory
The nervous systems capacity to retain and retrieve and knowledge. Mutiple memory systems.
Long Term Memories
Physical changes in neural connections
Long Term Potentiation (LTP)
Fire Together, Wire Together
HDAC Histone Deacetylases
Inhibit Gene Expression, HDAC is a molecular “brake”, Must block or turn of HDAC for memory to occur.
Cerebellum
Motor action learning and memory
Hippocampus
Spatial Memory
The prefrontal Cortex
Working memory
Temporal Lobe
Declarative memory
Amygdala
Fear Learning
Sensory Memory
Breif lasting <500 ms for iconic memory, Typically not in conscious awareness, “Cocktail party effect”, Allow us to experience reality as a continuous.
Iconic Memory
Visual
Echoic Memory
Sound
Haptic Memory
Touch
long-term memory
Consciousness, Working memory subsyetms work to provide a cohesive “story-like” experience, working memory is limited to 7 chunks +-2 sort of, rehearsel is required to store in LT memory
Long term memory
“Permanat Storage”, “Unlimited Storage, Practice makes LTM increase, there are mutiple types of LTM being episodic, semantic, Procedural, Priming
Episodic
Events that happen to you
Semantic
General knowledge of the world
Procedural
Motor
Priming
An exposure to one stimulus may influence a reponse to another stimulus
Explicit Memory
Requires conscious effort
Implicit Memory
It does not require conscnious effort
Classical
Associating two stimlus that Elicits a response
Encoding Specificity principle
State dependent learning, Learn something in a particular enviroment or circumstances and can only acess it then
Mnemonics
Help with recall, but does not help understanding
What is up with H.M?
He suffered from grand mal seziures. He had surgery to remove his medial temporal lobe including the hippocampus. He then lost the ability to remember new infromation for more then a few moments, but could remeber information he had known at the time of sugery.
Amnesia
A deficit in long-term memory resulting from disease, brain injury, or psychological trauma in which the individual loses the ability to retrieve vast quantities of information.
Retrograde Amnesia
A condition in which people lose past memories such as memories of events, facts, people, or even personal information
Anterograde amnesia
A condition in which people lose the ability to form new memories
Encoding
The process by which the perception of a stimulus or event gets transformed into a memory.
Schemas
Cognitive structures in long-term memory that help us perceive, organize, and understand information.
Chunking
Organizing information into meaningful units to make it easier to remember.
Working Memory
A limited capacity cognitive system that temporarily stores and manipulates information for current use.
Serial position effect
The finding that the ability to recall items from a list depends on the order of presentation, such that items presented early or late in the list are remembered better than those in the middle.
Consolidation
The gradual process of memory storage in the brain.
Flashbulb memories
Vivid episodic memories for the circumstances in which people first learned of a surprising and consequential or emotionally arousing event.
Reconsolidation
The re-storage of memory after retrieval.
Retrieval Cue
Any stimulus that promotes memory recall.
Prospective Memory
Remembering to do something at some future time.
Retrieval-Induced Forgetting
Impairment of the ability to recall an item in the future after retrieving a related item from long-term memory.
Proactive Interference
Interference that occurs when prior information inhibits the ability to remember new information.
Retroactive interference
Interference that occurs when new information inhibits the ability to remember old information.
Blocking
The temporary inability to remember something.
Absentmindedness
The inattentive or shallow encoding of events.
Persistence
The continual recurrence of unwanted memories.
Memory Bias
The changing of memories over time so that they become consistent with current beliefs or attitudes.
Source Misattribution
Memory distortion that occurs when people misremember the time, place, person, or circumstances involved with a memory.
Source Amnesia
A type of misattribution that occurs when people have a memory for an event but cannot remember where they encountered the information.
Cryptomnesia
A type of misattribution that occurs when people think they have come up with a new idea yet have retrieved a stored idea and failed to attribute the idea to its proper source.
Suggestibility
The development of biased memories from misleading information.