PSYC 3330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Synapse, Forgetting Curve, Hyperthymesia
17 Apr 2016
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The type of cue context is important in retrieval. Stimulus context (e. g. sentence that word was said in); internal context (state-dependent, mood-congruent learning); environmental context (encoding specificity) Forgetting is not necessarily bad only really notice it when our intent to remember something fails. Hyperthymestic syndrome: uncontrollable remembering (parker, chaill, mcgough, 2006) Aj remembers every day of her life, in detail, since teens; describes it as automatic and not under conscious control. Cost of having this memory: unable to forget unpleasant memories; reminders are distracting. Incidental forgetting: memory failures occurring without the intention to forget. Motivated forgetting: occurs when people purposely engage in processes/behaviours that intentionally diminish a memory"s accessibility. Forgetting curve: logarithmic relationship between time and forgetting; rapid rate of forgetting initially but less additional forgetting at longer delays. Bahrick, bahrick, and wittlinger (1975) high school graduates had trouble recalling a name; reduction in recall, but not recognition, of well-learned personal material (follows ebbinghaus" forgetting curve)
