PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Frontal Lobe, Forgetting Curve, Prospective Memory

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 101
• Professor: Steven Barnes, Grace Truong

Document Summary

Occurs during storage phase (between encoding and retrieval) Synapses or connections esp those that aren"t used very often become weaker. Rapid drop-off in mem perf early after learning. What you learned second interferes with the learning of the first. What you learned first interferes w the learning of the second. Helps w flexibility and decision-making (richard & frankland, 2017: absentmindedness. Memory failure due to lack of attention. At a certain time, you do this Depends on the type of info, not time. External cues to help you rmb (eg. sticky notes) Lower left frontal lobe activity under conditions of divided attention. Greater activity in left frontal lobe region associated w better mem encoding. Lower hippocampal activity during encoding under divided attention: blocking. Unable to recall something even though you are trying. Anterior cingulate cortex (acc) --> conflict monitoring. Prefrontal cortex (pfc) --> mod by demands on post-retrieval monitoring operations. Activity while tip-of-tongue most active: memory misattribution.