PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Encoding Specificity Principle, Anterograde Amnesia, Connectionism
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Anterograde amnesia - loss of memories for events that occur after a head injury. Attention - focusing awareness on a narrowed range of stimuli or events. Chunk - a group of familiar stimuli stored as a single unit. Clustering - the tendency to remember similar or related items in groups. Conceptual hierarchy - a multilevel classification system based on common properties among items. Connectionist models - models of memory that assume cognitive processes depend on patterns of activation in highly interconnected computational networks that resemble neural networks. Consolidation - a hypothetical process involving the gradual conversion of information into durable memory codes stored in long-term memory. Decay theory - the idea that forgetting occurs because memory traces fade with time. Declarative memory system - memory for factual information. Destination memory - memory that involves recalling to whom one has told what.
