Episodic And Semantic Memory Flashcards
Memories for a specific autobiographical event
Episodic
Two types of long term memory
Declarative (explicit)
Nondeclarative (Implicit)
Memories for facts and general knowledge
Semantic
Initial storing of memories
Encoding
Maintaining the stored memory
Storage/consolidation
Re-activating the memory for further processing
Retrieval
Old info interferes with new info
Proactive interference
New info interferes with old info
Retroactive interference
When info is correctly remembered but mistakenly associated with an incorrect source
Source misattribution
Info is correctly remembered but the source is not remembered at all
Source amnesia
Mistakenly remembering someone else’s ideas as ones own
Cryptomnesia
Theoretical process of strengthening the stability of stored info
Consolidation
Keeping a memory permanently
Reconsolidation
Working memory
What you’re currently attending to
Long term memory
Declarative and nondeclarative
Three major process for memory
Encoding
Consolidation
Retrieval
Memory can fail for 4 reasons:
Simple forgetting
Interference
Misattribution
False memory
Auditory agnosia
Can’t understand words, other sounds are recognized and reading/writing intact
Tactile agnosia
Can’t recognize objects by feel
Hippocampus and related MTL are required for initial storage and retrieval of an episodic memory but diminishes over time until cortex is able to take over without hippocampal help
Standard consolidation theory
Episodic memories are encoded by hippocampal as well as cortical networks and cortical networks never become fully independent of the hippocampus
Multiple memory trace theory
Transient global amnesia (TGA)
Temporary disruption of memory
Functional amnesia
Sudden massive anterograde memory loss from psych causes
Dissociative amnesia
Lost memory of a specific traumatic event
Dissociative fugue
Lost memory of identity
