Memory Distortion and Storage

These flashcards cover key concepts related to memory distortion and long-term storage as discussed in the lecture.

Memory Bias

Changing your memories over time to align with your beliefs or attitudes.

Flashbulb Memories

Detailed and vivid memories about the circumstances in which we heard about surprising and emotionally arousing events.

Misattribution

Misremembering the time, place, person, or circumstances associated with a memory.

Suggestibility

When misleading information affects our memory.

False Memories

Memories that are distorted or fabricated due to the incorporation of semantic knowledge.

Interference

The inability to retrieve a memory due to the presence of other information.

Retroactive Interference

When newer information interferes with the retrieval of older memories.

Proactive Interference

When older memories interfere with the retrieval of newer memories.

Absent mindedness

Failing to use selective attention or being inattentive during encoding.

Retrieval Cue

Anything that helps a person access a memory in long-term storage.

Long-Term Potentiation (LTP)

The process by which synaptic connections strengthen as a result of repeated stimulation.

Consolidation

The process where new memories become lasting memories through the strengthening of neural connections.

Episodic Memory

Type of explicit memory that includes personally experienced events.

Semantic Memory

Type of explicit memory that includes facts and knowledge about the world.

Implicit Memory

Unconscious long-term storage of automatic skills and habits.

Procedural Memory

Type of implicit memory related to motor skills and habits.

Schema

A cognitive framework that helps organize and interpret information.

Retrograde Amnesia

Condition where individuals lose the ability to access memories formed before a brain injury.

Anterograde Amnesia

Condition where individuals lose the ability to form new memories after a brain injury.