PSY 3377 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Memory Consolidation, Episodic Memory, Reminiscence Bump
13 Apr 2016
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Ltm: processing iii & memory in real life (march 29, 2016) Memory is not always accurate; it is always changing: adding details to memory, altering the information, losing information. Memory is an experience, so people will remember a memory differently. Memory vs. a computer: computer is accurate, memory is not. No control at the encoding level in an experiment. Complexity and features of a context is important to encoding memory. Encoding, learning, retrieving are all memory experiences. Difficult to study consolidation of memory in humans. Encoding specificity has been proposed to study memory consolidation. Greater overlap between encoding and retrieval = better retrieval: greater overlap when context in retrieval is similar to that in encoding (similar cues, features, context, etc. ) Learning/encoding experience: memory is under the influence of many factors (cues, context, how you feel, etc. ) Activation of mental representations doesn"t only depend on consciously accessing the memory; cues sometimes bring the memory back without our conscious influence on memory.
