ECOL 182R Study Guide - Memory Consolidation, Aplysia, Frontal Lobe

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
• Course: ECOL 182R
• Professor: archowitz

Document Summary

Accessibility refers to the claim by some theorists that memories are actually not forgotten, rather they become inaccessible. In other words, there is a failure in retrieving the memory rather than a loss of memory trace. Availability refers to the claim by some theorists that memories are, in fact, forgotten due to permanent loss of the memory trace, or at least damage to it, making it unavailable. Forgetting curve a graphical depiction showing the rapid initial drop in retention of information in memory followed by a relatively stable leveling off of information retained. The forgetting curve was first demonstrated by ebbinghaus" method of savings in recall ability of nonsense syllables. Jost"s law of forgetting if two memory traces are equally strong at a given time, then the older of the two will be more resistant to further forgetting. Permastore theoretical permanent storage facility for information that is well learned, as proposed by bahrick and phelps (1984).