PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Source Amnesia, Cortisol, Explicit Memory
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Source amnesia: forgetting the true source of the info. Sleeper effect: discount info from an unreliable source. Distributed practice: spacing learning periods with rest periods (24 hours) Better recollection of info told in a story form. Learning causes repeated stimulation through synapse (allows it to grow) Stress > epinephrine and cortisol > stimulate amygdala> stimulate hippocampus and cortex (increase encoding and storage of new info) Flashbulb memories: vivid, detailed and near-permanent images from surprising or strong emotion events. Events are accompanied by a flood of hormones, which are active when you recall the event (no more accurate than other) Tbi: traumatic brain injury leading cause of neurological disorders (car accidents, blows, falls, gunshots) Retrograde amnesia: cannot recover old memories, prior to accident. Anterograde amnesia: cannot form new memories after accident. Misremembering, need for logic and make corrections. Making connections with new information with old memories, leaving out some details. Easy to create false memories through leading q"s.
