Memory Flashcards
Episodic or semantic?
Memories tied to a specific time & place
Episodic
Episodic or semantic?
General knowledge about the world
Semantic
Are episodic and semantic memories part of Explicit & Declarative Memory or Implicit & Procedural Memory?
Explicit and Declarative Memory.
What is Implicit & Procedural Memory?
When previously acquired info influences behaviour or thought without itself entering the conscious mind. Ex: motor skills, habits, rules
What is the encoding specificity ?
Info retrieval is better if you have clues that were present when you encoded the info.
Easier to recall when person is in the same environment as when info was learned.
Remember more when context is the same during retrieval as it was during encoding.
Recall more when physiological condition or emotional state is same during retrieval and encoding.
What is the nature of reconstructive memory?
Our memory fills in the gaps to make sense of a memory, because most of them are incomplete. We use previous knowledge of a situation and we process this to complete the memory.
Which theory is this?
Body informs the mind.
“I’m afraid because I’m shaking.”
“We feel sorry because we cry, angry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, not that we cry, strike, and tremble because we are sorry, angry, or fearful.
James Lange Theory.
Which theory is this?
Emotion-arousing stimuli simultaneously trigger physiological responses and subjective experience of emotion. Ex: Sight of oncoming car triggers pounding heart (arousal) and fear (emotion).
Cannon- Bard Theory.
Which theory is this?
To experience emotion, one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal. Ex: sight of oncoming car produces a pounding heart rate which must be thought of as “I’m afraid”, which labels fear.
Two-Factor Theory.
