Long Term Memory

Question 1

Depth of processing

Answer 1

• The deeper you encode the better you remember
• deeper based on meaning versus shallow
• dependent on test type I.e recall vs recognition

Question 2

Recall vs recognition

Answer 2

Recall: recollection
Recognition: familiarity
- info lost or not accessible

Question 3

Self relevant information

Answer 3

We tend to remember information that is relevant to us or that we generated
- sue to depth of processing

Question 4

Organization of information

Answer 4

Info organized in semantic ways, where we can gain insight how knowledge is organized with recall items
- order of recalled items indicates how closely connected item is to that category.

Question 5

How information is coded in LTM?

Answer 5

-LTM encodes info semantically for storage
-imformation must enter working memory before it can be stored in LTM
- speed with which info is stored into LTM determined by amount of info that can fit into each step of visual working memory.

Question 6

Dual code theory (Paivo)

Answer 6

Info can be stored in verbal and/ or imaginable codes.
- more codes = better memory
-concrete words better remembered than abstract words.

Question 7

Synaptic consolidation

Answer 7

Changes happening at synapse level

Question 8

Systems consolidation

Answer 8

Standard trace level:
Multiple Trace Level:

Question 9

Consolidation and sleep

Answer 9

LTP occurs during sleep
- don’t nap get a full cycle when studying so synapse can retain information

Question 10

Reconsolidation

Answer 10

Every time you bring up a memory it is reconsolidated/reorganized because of new memory

Question 11

Autobiographical memory

Answer 11

-Memories related to self
-way of studying memory
-Difficult because you can’t check accuracy
The way we remember our life’s affects who we are

Question 12

Flashbulb memories

Answer 12

Significant emotionally arousing events
-feels more accurate (more confidence)
-you can retell events over/over again
-further in past less details remembered

Question 13

Infantile Amnesia

Answer 13

Poor memories of early events, we have limited memory before age 5 because our hippocampus isn’t developed untill 5

Question 14

Eye witness memory issue

Answer 14

Retrieval is very efficient for learning

Ronald Cotten rape case: girl put wrong guys in jail due to false eyewitness testimony

Question 15

Line up procedure

Answer 15

• Should have not there option
  -sequential (one at a time) more accurate than simultaneous ( lineup)
• recognition/familiarity