PSYC-104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Frontal Lobe, Semantic Memory, Interference Theory
6 Apr 2016
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The paradox of memory: our memories are surprisingly good for some situations, patient a. j. : superior memory: and surprisingly poor for others. Did you include the word sweet: if yes, you have experienced memory illusion: a false but convincing memory, memory is reconstructive: we extract the gist to make things easier to remember (but this may contribute to memory errors) Eidetic: photographic memory: short-term memory: limited duration (< 20 seconds) and capacity (the magic number, includes working memory, subject to fast decay and interference (2 types) Retroactive inhibition: acquisition of new info interferes with retention of old. Proactive inhibition: old info interferes with acquisition of new info. Most likely when land new stimuli are similar: long-term memory: permanent store of info, differs from stm. Errors of ltm differ from those of stm. The three stages of memory: encoding: getting information into memory, storage: keeping information in memory, retrieval:
