Memory - Memento Flashcards
Sensory Memory
Records information from the senses for up to 3 seconds
Short Term Memory
Holds around 7 items for up to twenty seconds before its forgotten or transferred to long term memory
Long Term Memory
Relatively permanent, can hold a lot of information
Memory Model
Sensory input -> Sensory memory-> Rehearsal -> Long term memory
Chunking
Process of grouping bits of information into larger wholes to increase short term memory
Central Executive
Directs attention and gives priority to certain tasks
Visual Spatial Working Memory
The ability to remember shapes and colors as well as locations and movements
Serial Position Curve
Indicates the tendency to recall more items from the beginning and end of a list
Declarative Memory (Explicit)
- stored long term knowledge of facts about ourselves and the world
- includes semantic (nonpersonal) and episodic (personal) memories
Semantic Memory
Long term memory that processes ideas and concepts not drawn on personal experience
Nondeclarative Memory (Implicit)
• subconscious recollection of a prior experience that is revealed indirectly, by effect on performance
Conditioning
How a person can be edited through learning
Priming
Where exposure to one stimulus influences responses to subsequent stimilus
Anterograde Amnesia
Inability to store new information
Retrograde Amnesia
Inability to retrieve past memories
Patient HM
Man who lost the ability to form new memories
Eyewitness Testimony
- account given by people of an event they witnessed
* highly inaccurate
Constructive Memory
False memory that does not really exist, but is unconsciously created to fill a mental gap
Confabulation
- symptom of many mental disorders
* making up stories to fill in any gaps in memory
Inaccuracies in Memento
- Leonard can always find his car
- He understands his disorder
- Leonard can remember the event that caused his condition
