Memory Flashcards
What is transience?
- Forgetting a phone number, name, appointment
- Ebbinghaus’ forgetting curve
What is a flashbulb memory?
Distinct vivid memories, often for a public event.
Usually people have strong memories about which they are very confident
-Memories of crimes may be like flashbulb memories
What is the phonological loop responsible for?
- Responsible for ‘inner speech’
- measured using memory span task
- must be involved in transience
What are the slave systems?
- Visuo-spatial sketchpad and phonological loop store a limited amount of information
- information is stored here temporarily
- allow for repetition of information
Evidence for neuropsychology..
Patient was unable to remember information for more than a few seconds
could only retain information from the past
-Must be the non-functioning hippocampus which is crucial to memory formation
How do you reduce transience(forgetting)?
- acting techniques
- hippocampus plays a role in rehearsing information
What is absent mindedness?
-Temporary lapses in memory
-in all ages
much more in older people
What is blocking?
- temporary inaccessibility of required information
- tip-of-the-tongue
- Differs from transience in that info is encoded and is still stored
What is misattribution?
- memories may sometimes be attributed to the wrong ‘source’
- False memories
- Could be used to attribute false memories of a negative experience with an unhealthy food
What is suggestibility?
- incorporating external information into personal recollection-leading questions
- EWT very susceptible
What did loftus and palmer’s work show about susceptibility?
‘How fast were the cars going?’ with different words
-Stronger words participants were influenced and assumed the car was going faster
What is persistence?
- Inability to prevent the recollection of unwanted memories
- such as PTSD
- counterfactual thinking- ‘what might have been’ scenarios
