PS260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Network One, Spreading Activation, Amygdala
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True or false, encoding information in such a way that it is relevant to you will help you remember: true, false. Chapter 8: associative theories of long-term memory. Emotional memories are better remembered because (choose the best answer): the amygdala is activated, helping consolidation, you focus your attention during emotional events, you rehearse emotional events more, all of the above. Long-term memory is enormous in size, and yet we typically extract information from it. For instance, ambiguous sentences like this one are understood by the automatic extremely quickly and effortlessly. application of background knowledge. Much of this chapter explores a single idea: that memory connections are much more than retrieval paths. In other words, knowledge is represented via a vast network of connections and associations between all of the information you know. Representations of individual ideas are the nodes ( knots ) within the network. The connections between the individual ideas are associations or associative.
