Chapter 6: Long Term Memory Structure Flashcards
What is long term memory
Is the system that’s responsible for storing info for long periods of time
Discuss serial position curve
Primacy effect: the greater likelihood of remembering words presented at the beginning of a sequence
Recency effect: the better memory for stimuli presented at the end of a sequence.
Distinguish coding in STM and LTM
Coding refers to the form in which stimuli are represented.
Determining how a stimulus is represented by firing of neurons is a physiological approach to coding
Visual coding is the coding in the mind in form of a visual image
Auditory coding is coding in the mind in form of a sound
Semantic coding is coding in the mind in terms of meaning.
Where is memory located in the brain
Hippocampus plays a role in forming new LTM and storage for short periods
What is episodic and semantic memory
Episodic memory is memory for experiences
Semantic memory is memory for facts
Episodic memory and semantic memory differ from the type of info and experience associated with each.
Mental time travel is the experience of traveling back in time to reconnect with events that happened in the past. It can be described as self knowing or remembering.
What is episodic and semantic memory
Episodic memory is memory for experiences
Semantic memory is memory for facts
Episodic memory and semantic memory differ from the type of info and experience associated with each.
Mental time travel is the experience of traveling back in time to reconnect with events that happened in the past. It can be described as self knowing or remembering.
How does age effect memory
Age related decline in episodic memory has been associated with structural and functional changes in the brain such as the prefrontal cortex and medial temporal lobe containing hippocampus.
What interactions are there between episodic and semantic memory
Instances like how knowledge affects experience.
The makeup of autobiographical memory. Autobiographical memory is memory for specific experiences from our life which can include both episodic and semantic components.
Semantic components are called personal semantic memories as they are facts associated with personal experiences.
Memories involving personal episode called autobiographically significant semantic memory.
What happens to episodic and semantic memory overtime
Familiarity: remembering something about event but unable to remember any specific details and is associated with semantic memory
Recollection: remembering specific experiences related to person or event. Associated with episodic memory
Remember/know procedure is the measuring of the ways of remembering.
Semanticisation of remote memories: are the loss of episodic details for memories of long ago events
Comment on procedural memory priming and conditioning
(declarative) Explicit memory: are memories we are aware of and can refer to.
Implicit memory: the memories we are unaware of which occurs when learning from experience isn’t accompanied by conscious remembering
Procedural or skill memory is memory for doing things that involve learned skills
Priming occurs when the presentation of one stimulus changes the way a person responds to another stimulus
Repetition priming occurs when the test stimulus is the same as or resembles the priming stimulus
Propaganda effect: the higher likelihood of rating statement they have read or heard before as being true just because they have been exposed to them before.
Discuss classical conditioning
Occurs when a neutral stimulus that initially doesn’t result in a response and a conditioning stimulus that does result in a response.
What is the constructive episodic stimulation hypothesis
States that episodic memory are extracted and recombined to construct simulation of future events.
