Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Spreading Activation, Anterograde Amnesia, Closed Head Injury

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: John Campbell

Document Summary

Is there a flashbulb memory mechanism: on september 12th, 2011 talarico and rubin (2003) interviewed duke. A recent but ordinary event: students divided into 3 groups for recall test: After 1 week, 6 weeks, or 32 weeks. Talarico and rubin (2003) findings: similar change over time in accuracy of both flashbulb and ordinary memories: Increased inconsistency: flashbulb memories no more accurate than ordinary memories, however, participants erroneously believed that their flashbulb memories were much more accurate than their ordinary memories. E. g. , failure to encode details that are not important to us. Interference theory: information forgotten because other items in ltm impair ability to retrieve it. Past material interferes with recall of newer material: retroactive interference. New information interferes with ability to recall older information: tip-of-the-tongue (tot) state. On verge of remembering but can"t recall. Retrograde amnesia: memory loss for events before amnesia.