Chp 8.4: Memory As a Constructive Process Flashcards
misinformation effect
the distortion of a memory by misleading post-event information
Eg. Eyewitness testimony, can be affected by phrasing of questioning
source confusion/ source monitoring error
tendency to recall something or recognize it as familiar, but misattribute it to a different source
boundary extension
remembering a scene as more expansive—as being “wider-angle”—than it really was
Recovered memory
Traumatic memory that is inaccessible for a period
How are memories physically remembered in the brain?
- Any single memory likely doesn’t have a single location in the brain
- Rather distributed across multiple areas
memory consolidation
the creation and binding together of neural codes that allow information to be transferred from short-term memory into long-term memory
Hippocampus (6)
- “Encoding station”
- Convert short-term memories to long-term memories
- Important in memory consolidation
- Binding together elements of a memory
- Strengthening long-term memories
- Making them more resistant to interference
Memory Consolidation and Sleep
• Sleep is important for stabilizing new memories, transferring them from the hippocampus to the neocortex
Complementary Learning Systems (CLS) (2)
- suggests that the brain uses a ‘neocortical’ and a ‘hippocampal’ learning system to achieve complex behavior.
- Faster (plastic) hippocampal system, slower (more stable) neocortical system (McClelland et al., 1995)
Which area of the brain mostly responsible for working memory?
Frontal lobes
Which area of the brain mostly responsible for procedural memory?
Cerebellum
Long-term potentiation
Enduring increase in synaptic strength through prior neural firing
A patient of yours has some memory problems. But the problems are very specific– he can not seem to encode or decode emotional memories. You suspect that there may be damage to the _____
Amygdala
