Introduktion

Question 1

Verbal learning

Answer 1

approach to memory that relies principally on the learning of lists of words and nonsense syllables

Function is probably indirect, forming part of the process of perception. Allows us to build up a coherent representation of the world(ex movie looks like movie and not a series of static frames)

Question 1

Vad e masking(o forward respektive backward masking)

Answer 1

a process in which the perception and/or storage of a stimulus is influenced by events occurring immediately before presentation (forward masking) or more commonly after(backward masking)

Exempel(behöver ej svara detta): brightness masking(operating at a peripheral retinal level) or pattern masking(mask comprising broadly similar features to the target, ex jumbled fragments of letters. Influences a later stage of visual processing)

Question 2

3 Assumptions in most theories of working memory

Answer 2

• most assume that woking memory acts as a form of mental workspace, providing a basis for thought.
• usually assumed to be linked to attention
• usually assumed to be able to draw on other resources within short-term and long-term memory

Question 3

Explicit/declarative memory

Answer 3

open to intentional retrieval
Split into episodic and semantic memory:
* Semantic memory refers to knowledge of the world; meaning of words, sensory attributes(ex color of a lemon), how society works, how to behave etc - inherently general in nature
* Episodic memory is the ability to remember specific single episodes or events.

Question 4

Mental time travel

Answer 4

term referring to our ability to “relive” the past and use this information to imagine the future

Question 5

Implicit memory

Answer 5

Undermedvetna minnen typ. T.ex priming och conditioning

Question 6

olika perspektiv på minne(typ historiskt osv)

Answer 6

• Minne som lagringplats
  (Atkinson & Shiffrin, 1968)
• Minne som process
  (Nairne, 1990, 2002; Neath & Surprenant, 2003)
• Eller både och
  (Baddeley, Eysenck & Anderson)