Memory process Flashcards
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4 models of memory
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- Info processing
- Parallel distribution
- Levels of processing
- 3 stage model
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Memory
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Ability to store and retrieve information over time
-constructed, not recorded
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Info processing
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- memory is a process
- brain is like a computer
- 3 basic functions: encoding, storage, retrieval
- memory is malleable
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Encoding
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Transforming what we perceive, think, feel into memory (short term)
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Storage
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Maintaining info in memory over time (long term)
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Retrieval
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Bringing to mind info that has been encoded and stored
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Elaborative encoding
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actively relating new information to knowledge already in memory
-left frontal lobe; inner part of temporal lobe
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3 types of encoding
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- Elaborative
- Visual imagery
- Organizational
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Parallel distribution
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- memory distributed across brain thru network of interconnected neurons
- activated: network works in parallel manner (simultaneously) to process info
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Levels of processing
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- remember something better if you process in a deeper manner
- shallow processing-little memory
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3 stage model (storage)
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- Sensory memory: short amount of time
- Short term memory: 30 s or less
- Long term memory: relatively permanent
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Visual imagery encoding
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Storing info by converting it into mental pictures
- kind of like elaborative encoding
- use occipital lobe and temporal lobe
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Organizational encoding
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Categorizing info according to relationships
-frontal lobe
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Iconic memory
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- Fast-decaying store of visual information
- less than 1 sec
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Echoic memory
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Fast-decaying store of auditory information
-lasts several sec
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Sensory storage
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- brief copy of stimuli that registers during sensory processing (transduction)
- Holds info for a few sec or less
- iconic and Echoic
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Short term memory
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Holds non-sensory information for more than a few sec but less than a minute
- working memory
- visual spacial sketch pad
- phonological research loop - language based
- central executive
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Rehearsal
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- mentally repeating information to keep it in short term memory
- can hold 7 meaningful items at once
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Chunking
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Combining small pieces of info Into larger clusters or chunks
- increase stm
- facilitates consolidation in ltm
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Working memory
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- active maintenance of information in short term storage
- short term isn’t just a place to hold info, we can process that info
- STM requires attn and has limited capacity
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Primary and recency effect
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You remember the first and last things best
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Long term memory
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- no known capacity or limits
- store information for days, weeks, years
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HM
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- 27 yr old man that suffered epilepsy
- Docs removed parts of temporal lobe, incl hippocampus
- stm was fine, no ltm
- anterograde amnesia
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Anterograde amnesia
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Inability to transfer new info from STM to LTM
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Retrograde amnesia
Inability to retrieve info that was acquired before a particular date
-usually after injury or operation
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Memory consolidation
Memories become stable in the brain
- transfer of info from hippocampus to permanent storage sites
- boost from sleeping
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reconsolidation
Memories become vulnerable to disruption when they are recalled, requiring them to be Reconsolidated again
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Flow of information through the memory system
Sensory input-->sensory memory (unattended info is lost)--attention-->STM (maintenance rehearsal)--retrieval-->LTM (some info lost over time)
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Where are memories stored?
- In spaces between neurons
| - act of sending strengthens the connections between synapses
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Long term potentiation
Communication across a synapse neurons strengthens the connection, making further communication easier
-ie. glutamate and excitation
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NMDA receptors
- influences the flow of info between neurons by controlling the initiation of LTM in most hippocampal pathways
- increase connections, inc intelligence
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Types of long term memory
LTM-->explicit and implicit
Explicit-->semantic and episodic
Implicit-->procedural and priming
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Explicit memory
Things you can tell other people about
- encoding: elaborative rehearsal, chunking
- need to to beyond rote rehearsal for deeper processing
- semantic network-elaborative rehearsal
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Semantic memory
General knowledge; language based
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Episodic memory
Personal experienced events
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State dependent retrieval
- inner state
| - tendency for info to be better recalled when the person is in the same state during encoding and retrieval
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Procedural memory
Motor and cognitive skills
| -ie. riding bike, tying shoe
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Transfer appropriate processing
- memory is likely to transfer from one situation to another when the encoding context of situations match
- retrieval cue must match encoding context
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Retrieval-induced forgetting
Retrieving an item from long-term memory impairs subsequent recall of related items
- occurs during conversations
- effects eye-witness memory
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Difference between trying to retrieve and successfully retrieving information
- trying: frontal lobe activated
| - successfully: hippocampus activated
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Retrieval cue
External info associated with stored information and helps bring it to mind
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Measuring explicit memories
Recall vs recognition
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Encoding specificity principle
A retrieval cue can serve as an effective reminder when it helps re-create the specific way in which information was initially encoded
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Recall
Intentionally bringing explicit memories to awareness
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Recognition
Encoding input and matching it to stored representation
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Organization of explicit ltm
- semantic network of related concepts
| - activation of 1 concept leads to priming of semantically related concepts, making it easier to retrieve memories
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Oliver sacks
- worked with patients that had memory loss
| - noticed people could unknowingly have connections to past but might not remember it
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Memory demands for testing and studying
- consolidate knowledge, don't memorize
- chunking hierarchies -elaborate rehearsal
- sleep=more hippocampal activity
- hippocampus is less involved in recall (frontal lobe is more)
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Role of hippocampus in ltm
- critical index for ltm
- consolidation: memory becomes stable in the brain
- re-consolidation: memories can become vulnerable to disruption when recalled; require Reconsolidation
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Biological basis of memory
- repeated stimulation of synapse can strengthen synapse
| - dendrites grow more spines
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Implicit memory
- past experiences influence later behavior and performance even when people aren't trying to remember them
- ie. HM Remembering to be polite; improved performance even when he doesn't remember performing the task before
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Procedural memory
- gradual acquisition of skills as a result of practice, or knowing how to do things
- things you remember are automatically translated into actions
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Priming
An enhanced ability to think of a stimulus, such as a word or object, as a result of recent exposure to the stimulus
- implicit memory
- ie. full in the blank exercise
- does not use hippocampus; uses cortex
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Perceptual priming vs conceptual priming
- perceptual: implicit memory for sensory features; right hemisphere
- conceptual: implicit priming for words/using objects; left hemisphere
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Role of the hippocampus
- involved in episodic memory
| - not necessary for semantic memory
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Alcohol myopia
Cognitive nearsightedness
- relatively low BAC=.06
- alcohol decreases reasoning and concentration
- can't process all cues
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"reconstructive"nature of ltm
- elizabeth loftus
- when we try to recall stuff, we remember fragments and fill in the gaps with logic and other knowledge
- gaps filled by stereotypes, schemes and scripts
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Confabulation
- honest lying
| - remember fragments of events and make a fable to connect them
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Enhancing memory video
- memories stick bc they arouse emotions
- ice: stress hormone response which helps "set" memory
- role of amygdala: needed for learning
- men and women store info in diff parts of brain
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Role of amygdala from enhancing memory movie
- learning
| - without it, we would remember everything equally
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Men and women store info differently
- men: right amygdala activated; remember gist
| - women: left amygdala activated; remember details
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Accident with quadriplegic vs paraplegic
- quad: less likely to have PTSD than paraplegic bc link between brain and adrenal glad is broken (no dress hormone response)
- less psychological response
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How does emotion boost memory; hormone and brain parts responsible
- store emotional memory better
- need NE
- hippocampus: encoding; influenced by amygdala
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Flashbulb memories
- vivid memory of dramatic event
- ie. where you were on 9/11
- may be influenced by fight or flight; not always accurate
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Real world implications of memory research
1. False memories
2. Repressed memories
3. Eye witness testimony
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False memories
- facts from fiction
- not deliberate deceit
- add details
- witness crime, read about it and gain memory
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Repressed memory
- bad therapy practices
| - ie say it sounds like you're sexually abused; implanting idea
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Eye witness testimony
- confident of opinion even if wrong
- not always reliable, even when not lying
- ie people identity innocent people in mugshots
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Loftus false memory research
- asked sibling to tell younger sib about time lost in mall
- younger sib has genuine memory
- adds details
- harder to do if it was more extreme
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Repressed memories; Williams research
- can be implanted
- Williams interviewed women bright to ER for sexual abuse
- 17 yrs later, many didn't remember event or even being abused
- need retrieval cues
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PTSD
- memory and anxiety disorder
- flashbacks and re-experiencing traumatic memory
- 3 factors
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3 factors that maintains re-experiencing
1. Memory process responsible for easy triggering
2. Individual interpretation
3. Cognitive and behavioral responses to trauma
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Trauma involves; memory process=easy triggering
- strong perceptual priming
- strong associative learning
- poor memory elaboration
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Trauma and "I am going crazy"
| -individuals interpretation of their trauma memories
- sense of threat
- lack of control
- seek safety
- maintain PTSD
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Treatment of PTSD; cognitive and behavioral response
- unlearning cognitive/behavioral responses
- avoidance
- same treatment as for phobias
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Soldiers and drugs
- Ritalin&adderall increase in prescriptions
- cause direct NE release-->facilitate memory formation
- emotional memories also elicit NE response
- drugs burn in memory and promotes fear conditioning
- consequence: higher risk of PTSD
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Possible drug treatment for PTSD
- beta blockers for NE
| - can stop fear conditioning
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Controversy of blocking intensity of trauma memories-experiment
- ER trauma patients
- 1 group beta blocker, 1group placebo
- tape record trauma
- play back to them 8 mo later
- placebo: more likely to show ANS signs
- maybe give morphine bc it doesn't affect mind?
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Alzheimer's disease
- dec in memory
- can't recall facts
- loss in temporal and parietal lobes (store explicit memories)
- retain implicit memories
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How to detect Alzheimer's disease before it comes
- buildup of amyloid beta causes problems
| - solutions: dec amyloid beta or block production all together
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Clive video
- damage to temporal lobe (hippocampus) & frontal lobe (emotional behavior)
- sees things in front of him,lives moment to moment
- nothing sticks
- needs cued situations to remember things
- remembered wife but not daughter
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7 sins of memory
1. Transience
2. Absentmindedness
3. Blocking
4. Memory misattribution
5. Suggestibility
6. Bias
7. Persistence
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Transience
- forgetting what happens over time
| - ie Lewis Libby and perjery
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Retroactive interference
Later learning impairs memory for info from earlier
- ie cant remember what you did on Monday when it's Friday
- transience
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Proactive interference
Earlier learning impairs memory for info acquired later
| -doing something every day; any change can make you not remember something
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Absentmindedness
Lack of attention = memory failure
| -less activity in lower frontal lobe; can't play normal role in memory making (elaborative encoding)
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Prospective memory
- remembering to do things in the future
| - failures in this=major source of absentmindedness
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Memory misattribution
- assigning a recollection or idea to the wrong source
- cause of eyewitness misidentifications
- common with people who have frontal lobe damage
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Source memory
When where how the memory was acquired
| -important for memory misattribution
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False recognition
Feeling of familiarity about something that hasn't been encountered before
-memory misattribution
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Suggestibility
- when an external source uses misleading information
| - loftus research - can convince people that things happened to them
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Bias
-distorting influences of present knowledge, beliefs and feelings on recollection of previous experiences
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Consistency bias
-reconstruct past to fit present
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Change bias
- exaggerate difference Between what we feel now and what we felt in the past
- ie couples said they love each other more each year but actual ratings don't show this
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Persistence
- intrusive recollection of events that we wish we could forget
- occurs after traumatic events
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Flashbulb memories
-detailed recolctions for
