Week 3 - Tuesday - Lec 5 Flashcards
What is the role of the phonological loop?
Human speech processing.
What was the procedure for the Bransford & Johnson paragraph schema experiment?
Either they would explain what the story was about before or after reading the assignment.
What is the misinformation effect?
Incorporating misleading information into one’s memory of an event.
What were the results of the test with the car video?
Depending on the question, the perceived speed would change.
How do we know memory is constructive?
Car experiment and paragraph experiment.
In Tulving’s test, which pairs did better: the ones with weak associations, or strong?
Weak.
In Tulving and Thompson’s paired associate test, why did weak associations do better?
Because they were associated with the words when encoded.
Butter-Queen
King-Queen
First is still better.
What is an engram?
neural substrate for storing and recalling memories.
What is equipotentiality?
The capacity of any cortical area to substitute for any other area for learning and memory.
What is mass action?
The reduction in memory is proportional to the amount of brain tissue destroyed.
What is Karl Lashley associated with?
- Equipotentiality and Mass Action
What did Wilder Penfield do?
During surgery for epilepsy, studied temporal lobe neurons using electrical stimulation.
5% Of patients reported vivid memories (more so than when other parts of the brain were stimulated)
