PSY 255 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Low Frequency, Marina Rebeka, Psychogenic Amnesia
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Prospective memory: remembering to carry out some intended action without any explicit memory. Obsessive-compulsive disorder is associated with the belief that that have a deficit in prospective memory. Active monitoring is not necessarily involved in successful prospective memory performance at least some people can preform such tasks automatically. Recognition memory: signal detection theory: a model for explaining recognition memory, based on auditory perception experiments: typical task: Ask participants to detect a faint tone(signal) presented against a background of noise. The to(cid:374)e"s loud(cid:374)ess agai(cid:374)st the (cid:271)a(cid:272)kgrou(cid:374)d (cid:374)oise is (cid:373)a(cid:374)ipulated. Recognition accuracy depends on: whether a signal (noise/target memory) was actually presented and the participants response. Assumptions: memory traces have strength (activation levels, activation levels dictate how familiar is stimulus feels, on average new items are less familiar than old items, items that surpass a threshld (i. e response criterion) of familiarity are judged old.
