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Memory Flashcards

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encoding

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initial processing of information so that it is represented in the nervous system (creating memory traces)

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storage

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retention of encoded information through consolidation

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retrieval

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ability of the brain to access stored information to use for some cognitive purpose - a cue (internal or external) triggers part of a memory trace, then you recall the rest

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capacity

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how much information can be stored in a memory system

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duration

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how long information remains in memory

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modal model of memory (Atkinson and Shiffrin)

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we have three types of memory: sensory, short-term, and long-term which each have their own capacities and durations

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sensory memory according to the modal model of memory

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large capacity, short duration - the sensory system holds information in place before it can be selected for further processing
temporary, automatic, no conscious effort required

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short-term memory according to the modal model

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smaller capacity than sensory, but longer duration (15-30 seconds) - STM can produce a behavioural output, transferring information to LTM

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what is maintenance rehearsal and its function?

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to prolong the duration of information in STM, it is the mental repetition of information without distractions

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long-term memory according to the modal model

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storage for information to be retrieved in STM and used for some cognitive function

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persistence of vision

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an image of a stimulus remains in our visual system after that stimulus has gone
iconic memory

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Sperling’s letter grid experiment

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partial report or whole report conditions of a grid of letters = could recall more of the grid in the partial report condition

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types of sensory memory

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iconic: visual (afterimages)
echoic: auditory (to help us separate streams of sound quickly)
haptic: touch (useful for gripping and grasping)
gustatory: taste
olfactory: smell

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types of LTM

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implicit: non-conscious, non-declarative
explicit: consciously accessible, declarative

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visual capacity of STM

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7 +/- 2 chunks/3-5 chunks

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auditory capacity of STM

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7 chunks

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what is chunking and what does it depend on?

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combining information into larger groups of meaningful units, depends on LTM (matching to memory), increases with expertise (chess novices vs. experts)

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mnemonists

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people with the ability to form large chunks

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decay theory of forgetting

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over time information leaks out

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interference theory of forgetting

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information processed between or before encoding affects retrieval
proactive interference (old information causes you to be unable to learn new information) and retroactive interference (new information causes you to forget older information)

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examples of proactive interference and retroactive interference

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pro: getting a new phone number and being unable to remember it because you keep typing in your old phone number
retro: learning a new model in psychology and being unable to remember the one it contradicted

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articulatory suppression

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repeating an irrelevant word to prevent rehearsal

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working memory model of STM

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three interconnected subunits: visuo-spatial sketchpad (visual component), phonological loop (audio component), central executive (coordinates other components and filters out distractors)

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how does the working memory model explain the age decline in memory?

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decline in the central executive instead of memory stores; becomes less effective at filtering out distractors

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evidence against the initial working memory model

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binding problem
a coherent story is better remembered = phonological loop interacts with LTM, so they are not completely separate sensory codes and instead interact with each other

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episodic buffer

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added component of the WM model to account for the integration of information in different stores (sketchpad, phonological loop, LTM) and is controlled by the central executive

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brain regions associated with the WM model

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occurs all over the brain (whichever sensory experience is involved)
dorsolateral PFC could be the central executive
episodic buffer in the parietal lobe
phonological loop in Broca’s and Wernicke’s
visuo-spatial sketchpad in the occipital lobe
attentional control in the anterior cingulate cortex

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function of the hippocampus

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encoding memories of complex events as patterns of activity across the cortex (depending on the nature of the memory)
over time the memory trace can become independent from the hippocampus

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types of implicit memory

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procedural
priming

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types of explicit memory

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semantic
episodic

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afterimages

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positive: represents the perceived image
negative: inverse of the perceived image (colours are inverted)

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serial position effects and their mechanisms

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primacy effect: information presented first is better remembered because of increased rehearsal = benefits from LTM processes
recency effect: final information is better remembered because it is stored in STM (increase delay to more than 30 seconds eliminates the effect)

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evidence for dissociable WM memory stores

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neuroimaging studies: different active brain regions for verbal and visual tasks
double dissociation in neuropsychological cases: patients have selective deficits to STM regarding visual-spatial and verbal tasks

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mechanisms of the phonological loop

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phonological store: passive storage for verbal information (“inner ear”)
articulatory control loop: active rehearsal of verbal information (“inner voice”), converts written material to sounds

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mechanisms of the visuo-spatial sketchpad

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visual cache: stores feature information (colours, form), passive
inner scribe: holding and working with information about sequence, movement, spatial location; active (processing changes)

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Ebbinghaus’ experiment

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tested how nonsense syllables (no access to knowledge) were retained and forgotten over time
study syllables without inflection, at a constant slow pace
developed the forgetting curve: exponential (memory loss is largest early on, then decreases)

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ways to slow the forgetting curve

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active rehearsal: speaking and working with the syllables
spacing effect: taking breaks between encoding sessions and varying the review sessions (differences in shorter bursts)

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levels of processing theory

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how we encode information affects whether we’re going to forget it (the strength of the memory)

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shallow processing

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focus on sensory features = likely to forget that information

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deep processing

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integrating higher-level information (meaning, evaluating, making connections to prior knowledge) = better memory

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deep and shallow encoding of faces experiment

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upright/inverted faces: focus on sensory features = shallow processing (better memory for upright because of holistic processing in FFA)
actor/politician faces: links to prior knowledge = deep processing (better memory than upright/inverted)

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naming mnemonic

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using acronyms like ROY G. BIV to remember the colours of the rainbow

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story mnemonic

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creating a story out of a list of words

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method of Loci

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associating pieces of information with a location/visual image (mind palace)
visceral/emotional aspects are better remembered
leaves a neural imprint - different neuronal connections

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types of deep encoding

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self-reference effect: information attached to oneself
generation effect: generated content is better remembered than passively read

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encoding-specificity hypothesis

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memory retrieval is better than when there is overlap with encoding context (context can act as a retrieval cue - internal state and external environment)

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state-dependent learning

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mental and physiological states match at encoding and recall = better retrieval (sober-sober and drunk-drunk conditions)

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external environment effect on retrieval experiment

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deep-sea divers were better at recalling learned words when external environment matched (underwater-underwater or land-land conditions)

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episodic memory

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encoding and recalling unique events within temporal and spatial context (re-experiencing)

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semantic memory

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information you know without remembering the context in which you learned it (societally shared general knowledge)
includes facts about yourself

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semantic dementia

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episodic memory is preserved (can copy images from memory)
cannot access concept knowledge, faces, names, words, functions of objects
common in Alzheimer’s
temporal poles are damaged, anterior temporal lobe

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hippocampal damage

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episodic memory dependent on the hippocampus - damage to it impairs ability to copy images after a delay, but semantic memory is preserved

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anoetic consciousness

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implicit memory: no conscious awareness (tying shoes, riding a bike)
no awareness and no personal engagement

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noetic consciousness

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semantic memory: aware that you’re consciously accessing information, but you don’t recall where/how you learned it
awareness without personal engagement

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autonoetic consciousness

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episodic memory: mental time travel to context to remember how you learned information
awareness and personal engagement

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personal semantics

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an intermediary types of semantics that involves information about the self and things that occur repeatedly in your life (autobiographical facts - my brother’s name & repeated events - I walked my brother to school every day)

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reappearance hypothesis

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idea that memories are encoded a certain way and stays that way (will be recalled the same way)
people with PTSD were recalling highly emotional events the same way = appears fixed

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flashbulb memories

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vivid memories of significant public events (emotionally arousing), retreiving specific details about time and place
still reconstructed memories - details change but vividness and confidence in them increased

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evidence for the reconstruction of flashbulb memories

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OJ Simpson trial: recollections changed and people experienced major distortions
people closer to the World Trade Center on 9/11 had more vivid, detailed, confident memories

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how to construct an episodic memory trace

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hippocampus binds together details processed in different brain areas and re-activates them at retrieval (may bring forth different combinations of details = memory changes)

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consolidation vs. reconsolidation

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consolidation is the initial storage from STM to LTM
once a trace gets re-activated, it is unstable and subject to change
it must be re-consolidated back into LTM which can alter the neural network

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applications of reconsolidation

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because memories become unstable, the memory could be changed/erased - eliminating fear responses in PTSD and phobias

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role of schemas in memory

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can lead to distortions based on your expectations
can lead to false memories - falsely endorsing a recollection of a schema-consistent lure

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War of Ghosts experiment

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Ps read an unfamiliar Native American folk story (did not match schema-consistent Western story structure) - their recall changed to match their schema (lost details over time, omitted strange details and altered others to become more conventional)
engaged in assimilation

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Roediger-McDermot paradigm

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semantically-related lures are falsely reported to be part of episodic memories (influence of semantic memory on episodic)

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how are false memories formed?

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familiar feeling = incorrect associations
altered at retrieval by context, suggestion, misinformation

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misattribution effect

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retrieving familiar information from the wrong source (match context to the wrong memory)
misattribution of familiarity (thinking your prof works at your grocery store because they seem familiar)

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misinformation effect

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leading questions lead to false memories: ‘contacted’ vs. ‘smashed’ = details added to original memory

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adaptive functions of reconstructive memory

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we can reconstruct and form hypothetical situations in our mind (planning the future)
decision-making, creativity, problem-solving
overlap in neural activity during recollection and imagining the future

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retrograde amnesia

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events leading up to the brain injury are lost (typically loss of personal memories, not semantic and self-identity) - Kayla Hutchison also lost language and basic skills and semantic knowledge

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anterograde amnesia

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unable to encode new memories after a brain injury

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Patient H.M. and Clive Wearing

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HM bilateral lobectomy of the medial temporal lobe - able to form procedural memories (non-declarative memory depends on the basal ganglia)
cognitive abilities were intact
STM was fine
Wearing encephalitis = hippocampal damage - intact piano-playing, language, proper behaviour, facts about the world

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Patient K.F. and Alzheimer’s patients

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KF - damage to STM systems (which are not the hippocampus)
Alzheimer’s show less connectivity between PFC and hippocampus, damaged STM/WM

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transfer-appropriate processing

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retrieval depends on whether the cue matches the way information was encoded + how well it was encoded (“what word rhymed with bat?” cued-recall condition vs. free-recall)

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spacing effect and testing effect

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information is better remembered if it is presented over multiple spaced-out periods
information is better remembered when asked to retrieve it on your own than passive exposure

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brain regions associated with episodic and semantic memory

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episodic: occipital and temporal (sensory details)
semantic: frontal and parietal (executive function and decision-making, abstracted representations)

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procedural memory and its associated brain regions

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learned abilities to perform an automatic behavioural action (more immune to forgetting)
basal ganglia refines action sequences and shapes habits
PFC organizes procedures and monitors them

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prejudice as a type of memory

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implicit; inclination to automatically judge something positively/negatively based on past experience

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familiarity effect of prejudice and its relation to propaganda

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more likely to judge something positively if you have encountered it before
propaganda: people more likely to endorse a statement as true if they have heard it before (even if told it is false)

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conditioning as a type of memory

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implicit; making stable, long-term connections, fear learning & phobias (associations remain despite explicit memory being forgotten)
relies on structures in the limbic system other than the hippocampus

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synaptic consolidation

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within the synapses: long-term potentiation (structural changes like the number of receptors or NTs released)
stable change that occurs quickly

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systems consolidation

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making new connections between neurons in the cortex (relies on the hippocampus; hippocampal replay)
more permanent than synaptic consolidation

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hippocampal replay

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sequence of brain activity is replayed after initial encoding

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what is the function of the medial prefrontal cortex in episodic memory?

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activates schemas and prior knowledge to integrate within an episodic memory - acts as a scaffold onto which details are added

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formation of habits

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initially depend on explicit memory but with training and exposure will become implicit
can be motor sequences or repetitive thoughts, emotions
requires the striatum

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how to extinguish a habit

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inhibit the PFC, replace the habit behaviour with another behaviour (changing/removing the reward doesn’t work) - rats t-maze experiment

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priming

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prior exposure facilitates processing without awareness

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implicit emotional responses

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fear responses
amygdala critical for this types of memory (Free Solo movie - amygdala needs a higher level of stimulation to be activated and produce a fear response)

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spreading activation in a semantic network

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automatic activation spreads to interconnected concepts and features, semantically related concepts also become activated

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structure of semantic representations in the brain

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modality-specific aspects (action, sound, emotion, colour) and abstracted representations in convergence zones (inferior and lateral temporal lobes and inferior parietal cortex)

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Ribot’s law

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retrograde amnesia is temporally graded; most recent memories are more affected than more remote memories

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dissociative amnesia

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retrograde amnesia for episodic memories and autobiographical knowledge - leads to shifts in lifestyle (new identity)
usually a response to psychological trauma
hypometabolism in lateral PFC = impaired executive processes, difficulty accessing stored memories (but they are there)

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dementia and memory loss

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Alzheimer’s begins with cell death in the medial temporal lobes (hippocampus) = episodic memory deficits, then spreads to other parts of the cortex

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offset and treatment of Alzheimer’s

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sleep, bilingualism, engaging the brain in a variety of activities can offset progression
music can help management of symptoms (alternate procedural memory pathway)

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symptoms of semantic dementia

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anomia: loss of word meaning and finding
cannot name functions of objects, calls objects ‘thingies’
cannot access details about concepts (all four-legged animals become dogs)

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healthy aging effects on memory

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brains shrink, mostly the frontal cortex and hippocampus
implicit and semantic memory are intact
episodic is impaired
deficits in general cognitive processing: lower processing speed, difficulty inhibiting distractors

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associative-deficit hypothesis and evidence

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problems encoding and retrieving associations
no trouble recognizing someone, but difficulty knowing where they come from (accessing episodic memory)
not due to attentional problems: younger adults still outperform older in a face-name association task while being distracted

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evidence of adaptive cognitive aging

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high-performing memory older adults recruited the bilateral PFC whereas young adults and low-performing OA recruited the right PFC (neural compensation for deficits)

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evidence of individual differences in episodic memory

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taxi drivers had increased grey matter of posterior hippocampi (smaller anterior) and better spatial memory (related to years of experience)
HSAMs

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Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory

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greater accuracy for episodic memories without using strategies (no increased abilities for other types of memory)
memory is still constructive, they just have more details to work with

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how to test for HSAM

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dates quiz: ask something you can verify for a particular day (weather, day of the week)
public events quiz: when did a particular event happen?

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downsides of perfect memory

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more prone to imagining future and constantly replaying the past
higher prevalence of OCD
difficult to form social networks because of a disconnect from peers
overly focused on small details = problems recognizing faces, cannot focus on general concepts

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