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CH5 The Psychobiological Process of Memory Flashcards

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Memory

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Defined as the processing, storage and retrieval of information acquired through learning.

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Sensory memory

A store in the Atkinson–Shiffrin Multi-Store Model of Memory

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  • Capacity is unlimited; duration for iconic (0.3-05s), for echoic (3-4s)
  • Consciously unaware of information
  • Receives sensory information from the environment
  • Enables perceptual continuity (i.e. constant awareness) for the world around us.
    • Does this by storing sensory impressions long enough for each impression to slightly overlap the next.
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STM (or working memory)

A store in the Atkinson–Shiffrin Multi-Store Model of Memory

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  • Capacity is 7±2 items; duration is 12-30s
  • Receives encoded version of information from sensory memory
  • Transfers information to and from LTM through rehearsal
  • Maintains information in conscious awareness for immediate use
  • When full, old items are pushed out to accomodate new items
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LTM

A store in the Atkinson–Shiffrin Multi-Store Model of Memory

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  • Stores information for re-access and use at a later time.
  • Explicit and implicit memory
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Storage

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  • Is the retention of the encoded information over time
  • Allows for information to be held for an extended period of time
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Retrieval

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  • Is the recovery of stored information into conscious awareness
  • From LTM to STM
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Encoding

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  • Making information meaningful
  • Only occurs in STM and LTM
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Capacity

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  • In relation to memory, the amount of information that can be retained at any given moment
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Duration

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  • In relation to memory, the length of time that information that can be retained
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Ways to manipulate capacity and duration of STM

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  • Chunking
    - Grouping of separate bits of information into one or more larger units.
    - Increases capacity of STM.
  • Maintenance rehearsal
    - Repeating new info over and over again
    - Increases duration of STM
    - Inneffective transfer of info to LTM.
  • Elaborative rehearsal
    - Linking info to info already stored in LTM
    - Encodes new information
    - More effective form of transfer to LTM.
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Echoic memory

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  • Form of sensory memory
  • Relates to auditory sensory information
  • Capacity: unlimited
  • Duration: 3-4s
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Iconic memory

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  • Form of sensory memory
  • Relates to visual sensory information
  • Capacity: unlimited
  • Duration: 0.3-0.5s
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Implicit memory

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  • LTM held without conscious awareness
  • Does not require intentional/conscious retrieval

(I)mplicit = (I)dk

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Explicit memory

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  • LTM held with conscious awareness
  • Requires intentional/conscious retrieval
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Classically conditioned memory

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  • Form of implicit memory
  • Consists of learnt emotional reactions that occur in response to a stimulus or an event you have formed an association with.
    - E.g. being fearful of a large dog running towards you.
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Procedural memory

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  • Form of implicit memory
  • Consists of skills, habits or actions
  • Tasks that are facilitated by motor skills.
    - E.g. biting nails when anxious, riding your bike.
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Semantic memory

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  • Form of explicit memory
  • Consists of general knowledge or facts (i.e. knowing that…)
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Episodic memory

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  • Form of explicit memory
  • Consists of personal experiences or events
  • Unique to each individual
  • Enables mental time travel like imagined futures and reliving the past
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Autobiographical memory

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  • Consists of experiences recollected from an individual’s life
  • Uses reconstruction to combine episodic and semantic memory to form a more coherent, complete or accurate memory
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Alzheimer’s Disease

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  • Is a neurodegenerative disorder characterised by the gradual widespread degeneration of brain neurons progressively causing memory decline, deterioration of cognitive and social skills, and personality changes.
  • Disrupts STM first then progresses into hippocampal damage
  • Primarily affects LT explicit memory, therefore patients cannot access autobiographical memories
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Causes of Alzheimer’s

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  • Begins in the hippocampus (hippocampal damage)
    • Amyloid plaque build-up between the synapses of neurons
    • Neurofibrillary tangles when protein builds up inside the neuron and are associated with cell death
    • Brain atrophy when Amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles progressively damage and kill neurons
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Aphantasia

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  • Is the inability to visualise imagery
  • Those affected may have issues with autobiographical memory, imagined futures, semantic memory, remembering faces
  • No known causes
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Mnemonics

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  • Any technique used for improving or enhancing memory. It can:
    • Add information to organise information in LTM, making it easier to locate and retrieve
    • Works best for remembering information that needs to be memorised but is not necessarily understood.
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Written cultures

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  • Cultures in which stories and information are shared and preserved through the processes of reading and writing.
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Acrostic

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  • Is a written culture mnemonic technique
  • Making verbal associations for items by constructing sentences using the first letters of the information to be remembered.
  • Each letter of each word in the sentence acts as a retrieval cue

Every Good Boy Deserves Fruit

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Acronym

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  • Is a written culture mnemonic technique
  • Are pronounceable words formed from the first letters of a group of words
  • Each letter acts a retrieval cue for the first letter of each word to be recalled.

BODMAS

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Method of loci

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  • Is a written culture mnemonic technique
  • Items are converted into mental images and associated with specific locations
  • Each location acts as a retrieval cue
  • Location should be familiar
  • First step is determining what locations one is most familiar to
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Oral cultures

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  • Cultures that involve people who communicated vital information and spread stories via word of mouth.
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Song lines

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  • Is an oral culture mnemonic technique
  • Is a navigational route comprising a sequence of locations. Links information with a physical location.
  • In addition, at each location, a story, song, dance or ceremony is performed that is associated with that particular location.
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How song lines differ from the method of loci

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  • Each location is used for a complex story so use larger locations
  • They are designed for permanent memory
  • Made by communities for communal use, rather than being made by individuals
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The role of the hippocampus in LTM

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  • Located in the medial temporal lobe
  • Encodes and consolidates explicit memory
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The role of the amygdala in LTM

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  • Located in the medial temporal lobe
  • Strengthens encoding by consolidating emotional component of explicit memories
  • Involved in formation of implicit, classically-conditioned fear responses; (involuntary, flight-fight-freeze)

The amygdala’s primary role lies in implicit memory rather than in explicit, despite its involvement in consolidation

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The role of the neocortex in LTM

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  • Located in the cerebral cortex
  • Long-term storage
  • Involved in retrieval
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The role of the basal ganglia in LTM

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  • Located in the cerebral cortex
  • Encodes and stores procedural memories involving voluntary motor movements.
  • Plans movement to enable fluidity.
  • Involved in habituation.
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Habituation

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  • Is a non-associative process
  • Involves becoming accustomed to a stimulus due to repeated exposure to it.
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The role of the cerebellum in LTM

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  • Located at the base of the brain
  • Encodes and stores implicit, procedural memories. Enables coordination of movement.
  • Stores simple classically-conditioned responses like blinking in response to CS

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