MUSC 021 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Anterograde Amnesia, Autobiographical Memory, Episodic Memory
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Absentmindedness: lapses in memory that are caused by breaks in attention or our focus being somewhere else. Acoustic encoding: input of sounds, words, and music. Amnesia: loss of long-term memory that occurs as the result of disease, physical trauma, or psychological trauma. Anterograde amnesia: loss of memory for events that occur after the brain trauma. Arousal theory: strong emotions trigger the formation of strong memories and weaker emotional experiences form weaker memories. Atkinson-shiffrin model (a-s): memory model that states we process information through three systems: sensory memory, short-term memory, and long-term memory. Automatic processing: encoding of informational details like time, space, frequency, and the meaning of words. Bias: how feelings and view of the world distort memory of past events. Blocking: memory error in which you cannot access stored information. Chunking: organizing information into manageable bits or chunks. Declarative memory: type of long-term memory of facts and events we personally experience.
