memory flashcards paper 1 completed
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what are the three types of long term memory
semantic
procedural
episodic
what is semantic memory
storing info about world
meaning of words, general knowledge ‘ london is the capital of england’
involves conscious thought
not time stamped, don’t remember when it was learnt
must have conscious thought- declarative, not autobiographical
what is procedural memory
how to do things
doesn’t involve conscious thought
not time stamped
how to ride bike, tie shoe lace
implicit memory- performint tasks without thought, motor skills
non declarative
not autobiographical
what is episodic memory
storing information about events
episodes experienced in life
involved conscious thoughts
influenced by emotion
autobiographical, non declarative
what are the two explanations for forgetting
retrieval failure
interference explanation
what are the two types of interference
pro active interference and retroactive interference
what is pro active interference
old disrupts new
- underwood findings study, found participants less able to learn words presented later in a lift to those words earlier
what is retroactive interference
new disrupts old
-mcgeogh and mcdonald demonstrated by retroactive interference in study
had participants learn list of words until they kew it, learnt new similar list of words, forgetting original material in greater intervening items
what is tulvings retrieval failure theory
explanations for forgetting in ltm as an inability to access new info, due to lack of cues
cues have to be present for recall
retrieval failure not able to access memories
- encoding specificity principle, info better recalled when encoded and retrieved in same place, and same state of mind, forgetting occurs to lack of cues in new environment or different psychological state to when encoded
what is tulvings encoding specificity principle
info better recalled when encoded and retrieved in same place, and same state of mind, forgetting occurs to lack of cues in new environment or different psychological state to when encoded
what are the two types of retrieval failure
- state dependent forgetting, mood or physiological state is different to mood when you were learning, forgetting internal environment
- context dependent forgetting
different environment to recall, different from environment to when learning, forgetting to external environment
multi store model a01
atkinson and shiffrin - 3 memories stores, linked through attention and rehearsal, information flows through a memory system
sensory store – STM— LTM
how is memory in the sensory register passed to the STM
through attention
how is information lost in sensory store
lost through decay
how is memory lost in the short term memory
displacement of decay
how it information passed from the short term memory to long term memory
rehearsal
how is memory lost from LTM
decay retrieval failure or interference