Ch. 9 The Remembering Brain
Psychology 416 with Berryhill at University of Nevada-Reno
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By: Ashlie Senko
Textbook:
The Student's Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience, 2nd Edition
Created: 2010-11-04
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plasticity
the brain's ability to change as a result of experience
short-term memory
memory for information currently held "in mind"; it has limited capacity
long-term memory
memory for information that is stored but need not be consciously accessible; it has an essentially unlimited capacity
articulatory suppression
silently mouthing words while performing some other task (typically a memory task)
working memory
a system for the temporary storage and manipulation of information
declarative / explicity memory
memories that can be consciously accessed
non-declarative / implicit memory
memories that cannot be consciously accessed (procedural memory)
procedural memory
memory for skills such as riding a bike
semantic memory
conceptually-based knowledge about the world, including knowledge of people, places, the meaning of objects and words
episodic memory
memory of specific events in one's own life
anterograde memory
memory for events that have occured after brain damage
retrograde memory
memory for events that occured before brain damage
Korsakoff's syndrome
amnesia arising from long-term alcoholism
consolidation
the process by which moment-to-moment changes in brain activity are translated into permanent structural changes in the brain
long-term potentiation (LTP)
an increase in the long-term responsiveness of a postsynaptic neuron in response to stimulation of a presynaptic neuron
ribot's law
the observation that memories from early in life tend to be preserved in amnesia
recognition memory
a memory test in which participants must decide whether a stimulus was shown on a particular occasion
recall
participants must produce previously seen stimuli with out a full prompt being given (compare recognition memory)
familiarity
context-free memory in which the recognized item just feels familiar
recollection
context-dependent memory that involves remembering specific information form the study episode
levels-of-processing account
information that is processed semantically is more likely to be remembered than information that is processed perceptually
encoding specificity hypothesis
events are easier to remember when the context at retrieval is similar to the context at coding
retrieval-induced forgetting
retreival of a memory causes active inhibition of similar competing memories
directed forgetting
forgetting arising because of a deliberate intention to forget
constructive memory
the act of remembering construed in terms of making inferences about the past, based on what is currently known and accessible
source monitoring
the process by which retrieved memories are attributed to their original context
false memory
a memory that is either partly or wholly inaccurate but is accepted as a real memory by the person doing the remembering
confabulation
a memory that is false and sometimes self-contradictory without an intention to lie
About this deck
By: Ashlie Senko
Textbook: The Student's Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience, 2nd Edition
Created: 2010-11-04
Size: 28 flashcards
Views: 46
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The Student's Guide to Cognitive Neuroscience, 2nd EditionCreated: 2010-11-04
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