PSY 324- Chapter 9

What is hyperthymesia and are people who have it considered geniuses?

When a person can recall every single day of their lives, no they aren’t geniuses because it is related to their lives

What is the main problem that occurs for people with hyperthymesia?

They have uncontrollable associations and their memory can become like a split screen

What two parts of the brain were enlarged in these individuals?

Temporal lobe and Caudate nucleus

Caudate can be translated as _____

tail

What are transplant errors?

You are more likely to lose track of bits of information from events that resemble each other or have the same person

How can memory connections both help and hurt recollection with intrustion error?

The retrieval paths can help you find info but it can be difficult to see where the remembered stuff stop and another begins

What are memory errors?

Recollections of events tied to something familiar will load details we assume are correct.

What are intrustion errors?

knowledge stored intrudes into the remembered event/all connected with a meaningful event

What is schematic knowledge?

When you enter a familiar place and you expect certain elements to be present

True/False: The more confident you sound when remembering something, the more people trust you

True

3 causes of forgetting

Retention interval, interference theory, retrieval failure

What is the retention interval?

The amount of time between initial learning and subsequent retrieval

TRUE/FALSE: If you don’t refresh connections, they don’t weaken

False, they do weaken

What is the interference theory?

When new learning interferes with older learning

True/False: passage of time is CORRELATED with forgetting, BUT does not CAUSE forgetting.  

True

What is retrieval failure?

retrieval of information isn’t a guarantee because it must be encoded properly

What is the Tip of the Tongue Phenomenon (TOT)?

You recall some parts of what you’re trying to remember but not all

Forgetting is most often a __________

retrieval failure

Some believe that hypnosis or drugs (sedatives) will assist in remembering/researchers believe these only put individuals in a ______________

less guarded and cautious state of mind

True/False: Reliance on schematic knowledge guides your attention to what’s informative in a situation and what is self-evident

False, it’s instead of what is self-evident

True/False: Memory consolidation is when a memory is linked with the amygdala so it becomes biologically cemented in place

True

True/False: It’s harder to remember places you’ve been or people you know

False, it’s easier