Memory 2

Electric boogaloo

What is the role of autobiographical memory?

Active reconstruction of sensory information

What components make up the autobiographical memory?

Episodic, Spatial and sensory memory centers

Events that have more significant emotions, have what salience in autobiographical memory?

Higher

True or false: life seems to speed up as we move along?

true

What are the two differences between the lifespan of memory chart and the serial position curve?

No primary effect and the reminiscence bump

What is responsible for the lack of primary effect in the memory lifespan chart?

childhood amnesia

At what age does the reminiscence bump occur?

20-25

What happens if we take the memory lifespan model and move it cross culturally?

The chart will look different

Define flashbulb memories

Emotive memories that occur during an event of wider cultural significance

What component in the mid-brain (center for primal emotion) has influence over the memory process?

the amygdala

What are the three main functions of implicit memory?

Procedural, Priming and Conditioning

What did patient HM prove regarding the neural correlates of each 3 functions of implicit memory?

They are all dissociated

What did the star tracing experiment prove for procedural memory?

Its neural correlate is outside of the hippocampus

Give an experiment example that would allow us to test for priming?

Soup vs Soap word association

What type of conditioning was Pavlov and his DAWG$ known for discovering?

Classical

Define engrams?

Physical representation of memory in the brain

Define elaborative consolidation

Using semantic connections to preserve the stimulus

What are the two types of processing for encoding?

Shallow and Deep

Outline some methods that aid encoding

Semantic relation, Retrieval cues, Generation effect, visual imagery and drawing

What is the opposite process to memory encoding?

Retrieval

What is the most fragile point for memories being altered?

During retrieval

True or False, emotion interference can have a positive and negative impact on retrieval

true

If you retrieve information in the same context you encoded it, what happens to the efficacy of retrieval?

increases

If context matching can improve retrieval, what must be true about the information that was encoded?

Sensory information must be encoded with contextual information

Outline memory consolidation

The structural change to synapses and their circuit that give a specific memory more permanence

Outline long term potentiation

Structural changes to memory circuits that enhance memory based response

During consolidation what happens to the Hippo-cortical connections for memory?

decrease

During consolidation what happens to the inter-cortical connections for memory?

increase

Define Retrograde amnesia?

Loss of all memory prior to a traumatic incident

Define anterior-grade amnesia

Inability to form new long term memories post trauma

Define Graded amnesia

Memory loss of immediate events following a traumatic event

What are some factors that have a positive impact on the consolidation of memory?

Generation of questions, sleep and taking breaks

What is the general plateau point for semantic memory?

60-65 yrs

True or false, implicit memory is effected by age?

false

What contributes to the difference in brain ageing between different memory centers?

Memory networks are dissociated

How can you increase the decay of long-term memory?

Increasing the period between encoding and initial retrieval

What neural memory center does the concept of familiarity rely on?

Semantic

What neural memory center does the concept of recollection rely on?

Episodic

What part of memory contributes to the imagining of future events?

Episodic

What other brain function also contributes to the imagining of future events?

Conceptual thinking

What are the two factors that influence memory?

Reality and previous knowledge/experiences

Name the experiment that proved that memory was formed from the connection between reality and prior knowledge?

Bartlet’s War of the Ghost

What are two types of knowledge that can influence memory processes?

Schema and Scripts

Define source monitoring?

The memory of where we got information from

Name the psychology student that modern beauty standards are based off?

Noah Milligan