PSY 1101 Chapter 8: Chapter 8 psychology

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Jenna Boulanger

Document Summary

Recogniion: idenifying a simulus that matches informaion stored in long-term memory. Relearning: assesses the amount of ime saved when relearning previously learned informaion: memories are stored as webs of associaions: Retrieval cues acivate one porion of the web through priming; Include informaion concerning context (context-dependent memory), emoional state (mood-congruent memory), and physiological state (state-dependent memory) at ime of encoding; Primacy efect: first items are best remembered when coming from long- term memory; Recency efect: last items are best remembered when relying on working memory: as a memory get recalled, it undergoes: Neural transmission within the neural network becomes more eicient; Memory becomes associated to a number of new indexes. Encoding failure: the memory never entered long-term memory; Storage decay: encoded memories deteriorate if they are never used, recalled, and re- stored (long-term depoteniaion); Interference: old and new memories can interfere with one another: Proacive interference: the old interferes with the new; Retroacive interference: the new interferes with the old.