PSY BEH 11B Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Forgetting Curve, Amygdala, Semantic Memory
23 Oct 2017
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Acquisition, storage, retrieval: there are many types of memory like episodes, general facts, skills/procedures and they all have some things in common. In order to learn something, you must put information into your memory. But with retrograde amnesia, this disrupts the person"s memory for events that took place for months or even years before the brain injury. The information is preserved in storage, but for various reasons inaccessible. Effective retrieval cues: retrieval cue is a hint or signal that helps one to recall a memory. Encoding specificity understood form a particular perspective or perceived within a particular context. Memory gaps, memory errors: there are often times that remembering is less successful and details of the memory are wrong. It is unclear what happens when new learning either disrupts old information or that new learning will literally replace old information like a hard drive, thus leading to intrusion errors.
