PSYC32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Cognitive Flexibility, Episodic Memory, Memory Consolidation
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Infant memory consolidation - the social context of stress, learning, and memory. Attachment and memory are interrelated and intimately linked (kraemer, 1992) Consistent with bowlby"s theory of attachment, securely attached individuals have a greater cognitive flexibility, giving them the ability to recall both positive and negative events, than insecurely attached individuals. Two key claims that motivates memory research: multiple memory systems exist, memory processing is time dependant, new memories are assumed to be fragile and to undergo a period of consolidation. Claim: learning and memory systems are mediated by multiple neural systems, which operate in parallel. Such arrangements allow diverse types of information to either compete for neural representations. Neural structure associated with memory: hippocampus, located medial region of the brain, serves a function of long-term memory. Specifically to mediate episodic memories within a spatial and/or temporal context. Second, less known structure is the: amygdala, critical for forming associations between and emotional context and an individual stimulus.
