PSYC 3330 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Autobiographical Memory, Synapse, Forgetting Curve
22 Mar 2016
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Incidental forgeing: memory failures occurring without the intenion to forget. Moivated forgeing: a broad term encompassing intenional forgeing as well as forgeing triggered by moivaions, but lacking conscious intenion. Hyperthmesic syndrome: uncontrollable remembering, highly superior autobiographical memory, do not exhibit a strong ability to memorize arbitrary informaion that doesn"t have to do with past experiences or events. The logarithmic decline in memory retenion as a funcion of ime elapsed. Steep iniial decline, followed by a slow rate of decay at longer delays. Permastore: forgeing only occurs up to a certain point, beyond which memory traces appear frozen. Overall retenion is determined by the level of iniial learning. Recogniion is generally easier than recall: more oten resides in memory than is measured by recall. Show forgeing be reserved to permanent loss of traces: the disincion between availability in the cogniive system (whether it is in storage or not) and accessibility (whether one can access a stored memory)
