Chapter 9 Flashcards
Who had Highly Superior Autobiographical memory?
AJ
What was special about AJ?
She could remember every day passed her teens.
What was the general trend of a forgetting curve?
You forget very rapidly at first, but forgetting gradually slowed down over time.
Was the forgetting curve more logarithmic or linear?
Logarithmic.
Does a forgetting curve describe how people forget public events?
Yes.
What’s easier: recognition or recall?
Recognition.
What does the accessibility/availability distinction refer to?
Accessibility is the ease of which you can access a memory. Availability is the binary distinction on whether or not the memory is stored in the brain.
What is systemic consolidation?
The hippocampus is initially required for memory storage and retrieval but its contribution diminishes over time until the cortex is capable of retrieving the memory on its own.
What is synaptic consolidation?
The imprint of experience takes time to solidify, because it requires structural changes in the synaptic connections between neurons.
What could explain infantile amnesia?
The neurogenesis-induced forgetting. Creating new memory pathways that disrupt old pathways.
The idea that daydreaming can cause forgetting relates to…
contextual fluctuation.
What is the competition assumption?
The theoretical proposition that the memories associated to a shared retrieval cue automatically impede one another’s retrieval when the cue is presented.
What is retroactive interference?
New information disrupting old information.
How would you test for retroactive interference?
Have people study one set of word pairs (DOG-SKY) then study a second set of words (DOG-ROCK). Then ask them to say the first word pair. If the memories for the first word pairs are unable to be obtained, then you have retroactive interference.
When the football players couldn’t remember who played on the previous team, did this prove to be an example of trace decay or interference?
Interference.
What is proactive interference?
Old info interfering with new info.
Proactive interference effects are most severe when ______ is tested rather than _________.
Recall; recognition.
The amount of proactive interference is greatest when the two lists share a common ________
cue.
When would a memory be vulnerable to disruption?
Reconsolidation.
What may cause infantile-amnesia?
Neurogenesis-induced forgetting, where memory loss is caused by the formation of new neurons.
What is contextual fluctuation?
Having trouble remembering something because over time, they no longer activate a retrieval cue. Like not recognizing someone after not seeing them in a long time.
Asking your friend what a new person’s name is, and the list of names they give interfere with the memory of the actual name, is an example of?
Part-set cuing impairment.
When people get together, they remember less than they would if they were on their own. This is an example of…
Collaborative inhibition.
What is associate blocking?
Blocking a memory that you know shouldn’t be a part of a cue.
