Week 4 - Encoding and retrieval Flashcards
Context-dependant learning
better recall of memory is likely to occur at the same environment that it was encoded in
Context reinstatement
when recalling memory, better done when it is back in the same environment It was learned in
encoding specificity
take in the environment stimuli around when encoding memory
Nodes (The memory network)
key ideas are linked together through association, become activated when receiving a strong enough input signal
Memory testing and implicit memory:
Recall test
given a retrieval cue, search thru memory for answer
Memory testing and implicit memory:
Recognition test
select and recognise a particular answer from source memory/familiarity
Direct memory test
directly asking about past events (recall, recognition)
-explicit memory
Indirect memory test
does not ask about past events (word stem completion task)
-implicit memory
False fame
Participants are first required to read a series of nonfamous names. … Under these conditions, a false fame effect will occur, which means that participants falsely identify previously studied (old) nonfamous names as famous. Apparently, participants are misled by the familiar sound of old nonfamous names.
Processing fluency
familiarity, the ease of processing stimuli based repetitions
Types of memory
- sensory memory
- short term memory (working memory)
- Long term memory
- explicit (conscious) > declarative memory (faces, events)> episodic & semantic memory
3.2. implicit (unconscious) > procedural memory (skills, tasks)
Retrograde amnesia
loss of memory access to past events
Anterograde amnesia
loss of memory ton new events
implicit memory: intact
explicit memory: disrupted
Double dissociation
is when two mental processes are shown to function independently of each other
e.g., speech and lannguage
