PSYC 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Dream Interpretation, Spaced, Reminiscence Bump
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2: review, learning as preparation for retrieval, spreading activation - priming of other memories, explicit vs implicit memory. Implicit lasts longer: preserve implicit in amnesiacs, recall and recognition, activation/priming plays a role in explicit memory. If something is primed/active it might feel true: episodic vs. semantic memory, mental time travel vs. facts. Forget really quickly at first, but once it"s remembered for a period of time the memory becomes more stable: deceleration. Shows memories become more stable with time: autobiographical memory, we have good memory for late teens, young adult, reminiscence bump, most interesting time of life. Forgetting: theories, decay, memories fade over time. Interference: new memories block old memories, good evidence for this, two kinds, proactive, old memories block new memories, retroactive: Learn new thing, it blocks old memory: experiment, pair numbers with words, ask them two weeks later to retrieve words based on number, two groups: 1) reteach them the same one they forgot - they do well.
