Week 6 - Long Term Memory Flashcards
What are two features of long term memory?
Permanent, dormant
What are the two broad types of long term memory?
Declarative- episodic and semantic
Non declarative - procedural, priming, conditioned responses
What is long-term memory?
A memory mechanism that can hold large amount of information for long periods of time. Long-term memory is one of the stages in the modal model of memory.
What is a serial position curve
In a memory experiment in which participants are asked to recall a list of words, a plot of the percentage of participants, remembering each word against the position of that word in the list
What was the outcome of the serial position curve
That memory is better for words presented at the beginning of the list and end of the list
What is the primacy effect?
In a memory experiment, in which a list of words is presented, enhanced memory for words presented at the beginning of the list
What is the recency effect?
In a memory experiment in which a list of words is presented, enhanced memory for words presented at the end of the list
What is coding?
The form in which stimuli are represented in the mind. For example, information can be represented in visual, semantic, visual, and phonological forms.
What is proactive interference?
When information learned previously interferes with learning new information
What does recognition memory?
Identifying a stimulus that was encountered earlier. Stimuli are presented during a study period; later the same similar, plus other new stimuli presented. The participants task is to pick the stimuli that were originally presented.
What is the function of the hippocampus?
A sub cortical structure that is important for forming long-term memories, and also plays a role in remote, episodic memories, and in short-term storage of novel information
What is mental time travel?
The defining property of the experience of episodic memory, in which a person travels back in, Time in his or her mind to re-experience events that happened in the past
What is an autobiographical memory?
Memories for specific events from a persons life, which can include both episodic and semantic components
What are personal semantic memories?
Semantic components of autobiographical memories
What is the remember/know procedure
The procedure in which subjects are presented with a stimulus they have encountered before, and asked indicate remember, if they remember the circumstances under which the initial encounter that, or no, if the similar seems familiar, but don’t remember experiencing it earlier
What does it mean to have semanticization of remote memories
Lots of episodic details for memories of long ago events
What did the constructive episodic simulation hypothesis determine?
That episodic memories are extracted and recombine to construct simulations of future events
What are explicit memories?
Memory that involves conscious recollections of events or fact that we have learned in the past
What are implicit memories?
Memory that occurs when an experience effects of persons behaviour, even though the person is not aware that he or she has had that experience (unconscious)
What is skill memory also referred to as
Procedural memory
What is procedural memory?
Memory for how to carry out highly practiced skills
What process does expert induced amnesia refer to?
Amnesia that occurs because well learned procedural memories do not require attention
What is the process of priming?
Occurs when the presentation of one stimulus changes the way a person response to another stimulus
What does repetition priming?
When are visual representation of a stimulus affects a person’s response to the same stimulus when it’s present later
What does the propaganda affect refer to?
People are more likely to write statements they have heard or read before as being true, just because of prior exposure to the
