Memory is an approximation, a reconstruction of the past that depends on our interpretation of the details
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What are schemas?
Mental representations of what we expect in general from an event
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What are the two types of memory failures?
Forgetting and distortion
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Acquisition failure:
information that isn’t attended to isn’t encoded
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Availability/consolidation failure:
once the working memory is full new information pushes the old information out
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Transcience:
memory decays over time
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Ebbinghaus’ forgetting curve:
recent events are easier to recall, but the rate of forgetting is also quickest shortly after learning, information is forgotten because it’s no longer available
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Trace decay theory:
the probability of remembering something depends on how much time has passed since learning
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What are the two kinds of interference according to the interference theory?
Pro-active interference and retro-active interference
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Retrograde amnesia:
information prior to trauma is forgotten, no problem forming new memories
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Anterograde amnesia:
difficulty acquiring new memories, while old memories are intact
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Tip-of-the-tongue is an example of...
Blocking
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Memory recall is helped by...
Context reinstatement
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Lapses in attention have a...
Negative effect on memory storage
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Which is not a distortion?
Retrieval failure
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What are schemas?
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Mental representations of what we expect in general from an event
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