L1 - Intro Flashcards
Define ‘remembering’
The retrieval of memories into conscious awareness.
Define ‘memory’
The ability to recall or recognise previous experience.
What is a memory trace?
A mental representation of a previous experience.
Which events are required to successfully produce a memory?
- Encoding/Acquisition
- Consolidation/Store
- Retrieval
What did Maguire (2000) find about the grey matter volume of taxi drivers?
Taxi drivers had higher volumes of grey matter in their posterior hippocampi (and less in their anterior hippocampi) tahan bus drivers.
We are more likely to have ______ memory for items which do not normally belong in a particular schema.
Better/enhanced.
Working memory capacity is roughly how many items?
7 items.
What does the Brown-Peterson task test?
Participants’ memory for strings of information.
What is the typical procedure in a Brown-Peterson task?
Strings of information are memorised one by one, five times. The type of information presented changes on the fifth trial, however.
Explain the typical results of the Brown-Peterson task.
Memory and recall for thhe first trial is good, but subsequent trials gradually decrease in accuracy of recall. Memory spikes, however, for the fifth trial, as the type of information changes, meaning the previous trials no longer interfere.
What phenomenon is demonstrated in the Brown-Peterson task?
Pro-active interference.
What is pro-active interference (PI)?
Disruption of memory by previous learning of similar material.
