PSYC 107 1nd Edition Lecture 24 Outline of Last Lecture I Modified Three Stage Model II Storage Retaining Information III How We Encode IV Memory Effects V What We Encode VI First Storage VII Working Memory VIII Long Term Memory IX Storing Memories Outline of Current Lecture I Storing Memories II Infantile Amnesia III Brain and Memory IV Anterograde Amnesia V Retrieval VI Priming VII Forgetting VIII For Exam Current Lecture I Storing Memories Explicit memories Conscious recall Facts and experiences that are consciously known and declared General knowledge Processed by the hippocampus These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Example name of siblings Implicit Memories Unconscious recall Involves learning an action while the individual does no know or can not declare that she knows Motor and cognitive Conditioning effects Processed by cerebellum Example fear of guns or balloons Automatic reactions HM in the 1950 s Severe epilepsy so they removed the hippocampi From the time of the surgery HM could not make any new memories II Infantile Amnesia Implicit memories stay with us for a lifetime Explicit memory average of the earliest memory is 3 5 years Any memories before 2 are not remembered It is almost scientifically impossible to remember memories from before the age of 2 They have a half life Memories at age 3 can be remembered by 60 at the age of 7 and only 34 at the age of 9 III Brain and Memory These locations only store memories they do not process them Hippocampus temporarily process explicit memories Left visual information Right designs and location IV Cerebellum forming and storing the implicit memory in the Cerebral Cortex Anterograde Amnesia When one can not make new memories Retrograde amnesia is when past memories are lost this is very rare V Retrieval Recall retrieve information effortfully Recognition must identify the answer from choices Relearning learn the material again Memories are held together by associations Associates are the anchors that help retrieve memories Cues Context effect being in same context as learning D j vu current situation unconsciously remember an earlier experience Moods state dependent memories Memories are dependent on the mood being in the same mood helps one to remember VI VII Priming To retrieve information you most activate one strand that leads to the memory Hearing rabbit visualize a rabbit remember hare is also a rabbit Forgetting Encoding failure you cannot remember something you never encoded Motivated forgetting Freud repressed memories and cannot remember Motivated forgetting is unknowingly revising memories Repression banishes anxiety causing thoughts VIII For Exam Read about decay Read about the forgetting curve
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