The feeling you know something despite not being able to recall it
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High cue familiarity with the inability to retrieve the information leads to tip of the tongue phenomenon, who conducted a study on this?
Burke, Mackay, Worthley & Wade (1991)
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What is a flashbulb memory?
A memory that has a strong emotional resonance
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Who conducted a study on flashbulb memories from 9/11?
Talanco & Rubin (2003)
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Are flashbulb memories remembered better than any other memory?
No
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What is anterograde amnesia?
Difficulty learning and acquiring information after onset of injury
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What is retrograde amnesia?
Difficulty remembering information and events from periods before the injury
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What brain areas are commonly affected with retrograde amnesia?
Hippocampus and Medial temporal lobes
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In a study on anterograde amnesia, patients had impaired explicit memories but they could still learn new skills, who conducted this study?
Spiers et al (2001)
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Cavaco et al (2014) found patients did learn from practice when pouring jugs of water, weaving and tracing figures,. What brain area was damaged in these patients?
Medial temporal lobes
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What Dewar et al (2010) find in their masking study with amnesiacs?
Amnesiacs have fragile memories that are not protected from interference
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Vargha-Khadem et al (2002) found that the semantic system can be impacted by amnesia, true or false?
True
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According to Ebbinghaus, when does most forgetting occur?
In the first hour
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What type of forgetting has 40% loss in the first two years?
Foreign language
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What is the minimum that continuous motor skills will be remembered for?
2 years
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Which forgetting theory states that information is not forgotten it is just hard to retrieve because retrieval cues are not well remembered?
Poor retrieval (cue dependent) theory
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Did Tulving & Psotka (1971) find evidence for cue dependent forgetting?
Yes- when a word was recalled the rest of the category could be recalled
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What is retroactive interference?
New information makes it hard to remember old information
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What is proactive interference?
Old information makes it hard to remember new information
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Who found evidence of interference from asking pps to learn multiple lists?
Salmecka (1990)
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Who found that reusing pps could result in them getting interference from previous trials?
Underwood (1957)
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Who is mainly linked to motivated forgetting theory?
Freud (1915)
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Who is the pioneer of trace decay theory?
Thorndike (1911)
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When animals metabolic activity is lowered they remember better due to reducing neural activity interference (Ducker & Rensch, 1968)?
True
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During a sleep experiment by Jenkins & Dallenbach (1924), did pps remember more if they went to sleep or if they carried on as normal?
Learnt more if they slept
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What study found that multiple trials in the same experiment could cause interference with the pps?
Peterson & Peterson (1959)
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Who studied patient EP who had no explicit memory?
Hamann & Squire (1997)
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Card 2
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High cue familiarity with the inability to retrieve the information leads to tip of the tongue phenomenon, who conducted a study on this?
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Burke, Mackay, Worthley & Wade (1991)
Card 3
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What is a flashbulb memory?
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Card 4
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Who conducted a study on flashbulb memories from 9/11?
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Card 5
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Are flashbulb memories remembered better than any other memory?
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