PSYC 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Retrograde Amnesia, Reminiscence Bump, Autobiographical Memory
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Learning as preparation for retrieval - context effects. Spreading activation - priming of accessibility, maybe behavior. Explicit vs implicit memory - implicit memory longer lasting, preserved in amnesiacs. Recall vs recognition - activation/priming plays a role in explicit memory, and is often mistaken for explicit memory (like truth effects) Episodic vs semantic memory - mental time travel, autobiographical memory vs facts. There is a forgetting curve, kind of a law of forgetting. If you test immediately, you"ll remember most of it. You lost a ton of info in the first hour, but you lose less and less as time goes on. Autobiographical memory tends to have a longer time course of consolidation. Loses a lot until 3 years, but anything that lasted 3 yrs kept lasting. Patient that had virtually limitless" memory (usually called patient s ) This patient was not successful in life, became a circus performer doing memory tricks.
