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Inattentional Blindness

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failure to see something we’re looking at, occurs because attention is preoccupied

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Visual Pop-Out

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idea that some basic features don’t need attention to be seen

  • “primitive” features would naturally stand out
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Feature Integration Theory - Anne Treisman

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when perceiving a stimulus,
- features are “registered early, automatically, and in parallel,
- while objects are identified separately” and at a later stage in processing.

attention serves to bind simple features together, the binding process is slow and serial

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Spatial Attention

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selecting chunks of areas as a means of searching for an item

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Change Blindness

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bad at noticing even large changes and a failure to update representations between views

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Feature Based Attention

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prioritizes the processing of non-spatial features across the visual field, processing of entire visual field as opposed to select chunks

for example someone wearing a bright colour shirt will stand out in visual field

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Memory Athletes don’t

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  • score higher on general cognitive ability
  • have a larger hippocampus

instead fMRI showed that they used different brain areas, often involved in visual imagery and spatial navigation and they use encoding strategies

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encoding

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how information is put into the mind

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retrieving

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how information is pulled out of the mind

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Multi-Store Model of Memory

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Atkinson & Shiffrin, 1998

input –> sensory memory
–> short-term memory (working) –> long term memory

short to long term memory = consolidation
long to short term memory = retrieval
sensory to short term memory = attention

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sensory memory

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“iconic memory”

richly detailed visual memory that persists for a fraction of a second

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working memory

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short-term memory
- information is consciously focussed with attention

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Memory Palace Method

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connect images to subjects, placed along a path and then repeat process

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Chess Configurations - Chase & Simon, 1973

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  • child experts used chunking to understand the pieces of information better than adult novices despite the adults larger memories

meaning is imposed on the subjects of memorisation

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schema

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knowledge or expectations about a domain or event, structuring information in the mind

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The Deese/Roediger-McDermott Effect

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memory can be distorted by our biases and assumptions and by misleading information

–> by our schemas

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The War of The Ghosts - Frederic Bartlett (1932)

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suggested that recollections become increasingly shaped by our schemas as detailed memories fade

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Elizabeth Loftus & Palmer, 1974 - False Memories

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the way the question is asked can alter the answers or interpretations of the event, information gained about event after it occurs may inform what you think has happened

  • Creation of the Cognitive Interview
    1. Mentally reinstate context
    2. Report everything, even extraneous details

for example
- how hard did the car hit you?
- vs
- how hard did the car smash into you?

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Source Monitoring includes

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keeping track of where memories come from

external source, internal source, reality monitoring

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internal and external source monitoring

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External: distinguishing information retrieved from external sources, “what i thought vs what they thought”

Internal: distinguishing information retrieved from, “what i thought vs what i said”

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Recognition

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Recognition: identifying something as familiar to a previous experience

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desirable difficulties

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bjork & bjork 2011

challenges that may seem to slow down learning and performance, but which lead to longer and better memory

include:
retrieval practice, spaced practice, elaboration (deep encoding)

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retrieval practice

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practicing recalling information
- can result in retrieval failure
- done by re-studying for higher retention

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retrieval failure

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failing to retrieve something

some types include:
- blocking: the feeling of there being something interfering with access to memory, even though the memories are intact and well-encoded
- tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon: the feeling of not being able to bring a word to mind despite being able to recall things associated to it

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spaced practice

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as opposed to massed practice

consolidation: the stabilisation of memories that have already been encoded, spread out over time

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elaboration (deep encoding)

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link parts of material to each other and to your own interests, generate new examples, force engagement with deeper meaning

actively forming mental links

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Why may emotions relate to memory?

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amygdala and hippocampus are in close proximity

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Example of emotion relationship to memory

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  • Rats that had adrenaline blocked prevented retention of stressful memories
  • In people, a beta-blocker to block adrenaline eliminated memory enhancement for an emotional story rather than a non-emotional story
  • Amygdala activity correlated with better memory for emotional images
  • Events have emotional power when they are important to us
  • Hormones released with strong emotions seem to solidify memory
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example of an undesirable difficulty

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sleep loss hurts memory

  • 6 hours or less per night caused deficits equivalent to 2 nights sleep deprivation, sleepiness ratings suggested that participants were unaware of the deficits
  • important for memory consolidation
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flashbulb memory

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vivid recollection of where you were and what you were doing when something emotional occurred

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Patient H.M

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  • removed hippocampus to treat epilepsy
  • it cured seizures but lost ability to create new memories
  • no change on cognitive intelligence but they got anterograde amnesia
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anterograde amnesia

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inability to create new memories, difficulting moving information from working memory to long-term memory
- more common
- damage to hippocampus, medial temporal lobe

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retrograde amnesia

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inability to access old memories
- typically more profound for most recent memories
- old memories have had time to consolidate

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Diagram of Memory

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hyperthymestic syndrome

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highly superior autobiographical memory

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memory is conscious and unconscious

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conscious
- episodic: events
- semantic: facts

unconscious
- conditioned: making associations between stimuli or an S and an R
- primed: prior exposure changes performance or judgement
- procedural: skills and rules

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external and internal attention

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external: to the world
- modality
- features and objects
- location
- time

internal: in self
- long-term memory
- working memory
- selecting responses

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Alan Baddeley’s Model of Working Memory

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working memory manipulates and manages information in buffers and the central executive works with these buffers in mind

the buffers can include
- phonological loop: stores auditory information briefly

  • episodic buffer: integrates information into new representations
  • visuospatial sketchpad: stores visual information briefly
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automatic process

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minimal cognitive effort required, natural

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controlled process

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effortful, more cognitive involvement

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cognitive load

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how demanding or difficult each task is

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overlap

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how much tasks compete for same mental resources

tested
- people drove while performing working memory task
- 97.5% were impaired in both
- 2.5% weren’t impaired at all: supertasker

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Serial Position Effect

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primacy effect (remembering first thing seen) - advantage as it is rehearsed more

recency effect (remembering the last thing seen) - advantage as it is still fresh from short-term memory

primacy is strong in recall compared to recency effect

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confabulation

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use of common sense, learned experience and memories interacting to fill in a blank

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elaborative encoding

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telling self a story strategy, connecting new information to memories you already have

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explicit and implicit memory

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explicit - conscious (declarative)
implicit - unconscious (non-declarative)

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introspection

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technique by Wundt

attempt to carefully observe one’s own mental experiences as they unfolded

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problems of introspection

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validity - may not have conscious access to most basic cognitive processes

fallibility of memory - lacks accuracy

reliability - subjective observations are hard to replicate

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behaviourism

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studied only outward behaviour

  • succeeded in predicting and modifying behaviour without needing to consider mental processes
  • then new findings were discovered that were unexplainable by behaviourists
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Chomsky

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linguistics
- as children learn they make grammar errors that follow grammar rules, which cognitively represent language rules although just applied in the wrong circumstances
- how did they know this? cognition

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when can we multi-task

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only when one task demands attentional resources

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declarative memory

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memories we have conscious access to
- semantic
- episodic

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semantic memory

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long-term capacity to recall words, concepts and numbers, essential for language

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episodic

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long-term ability to learn, store, and retrieve personal and unique experiences occurring in daily life

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recall

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mentally searching and retrieving information from long-term memory

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reality monitoring

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distinguishing between internal and external sources

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interleaved practice

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when you are learning two or more related concepts or skills, instead of focusing exclusively on one concept or skill at a time, it can be helpful to alternate between them

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two strategies in elaboration

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self-reference effect: better memory for material when you think about how it connects to you

generation effect: better remember material we generate ourselves rather than material just memorised

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state dependent learning

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people will remember more information if they are doing the same thing when this information was first encoded, i.e. if John is studying while eating a big meal, he will remember the information he learnt when he was studying the next time he eats a big meal

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Craik & Tulving (1975) found that

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the deeper the encoding, the better the memory

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what helps consolidate memory

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  • sleep
  • emotions
  • exercise
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shallow coding

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focus on surface level features

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primed memory

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prior exposure changes performance or judgement

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conditioned memory

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making associations between stimuli or between stimulus and response

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procedural memory

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skills and rules, patient H.M could still play the piano even though he couldn’t remember ever learning it

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unconscious memory

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procedural, conditioned, primed

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visuospatial sketchpad

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working memory stores visual information briefly

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episodic buffer

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working memory integrates information into new representations

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phonological loop

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working memory stores auditory information briefly

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