PSY E112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Encoding Specificity Principle, Frontal Lobe, Long-Term Memory
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Phys. object, etc. ) that improves ability to recall information from memory. Recall: memory operation without using hints or cues (bringing something to mind without aid) Recognition: identification of presented info or stimuli (objects, people previously seen or know, etc. ) Memory savings: reduced time needed to re-learn some already learned. Context dependent memory: recall info better when state or environment at time of recall matches that at time of encoding. Seven sins of memory: transience, loss of info from memory with time. Called blocking (failure to retrieve info in long term memory: misattribution, misattribution errors- memory ascribed to wrong source. Highlights that source memory (knowing where memories came. Destination memory- recalling whom you"ve told things to from in first place) is independent of memory itself. These errors are result of frontal lobe damage: people can create false memories if someone (therapist) suggests these, suggestibility, bias memories or asks individual to imagine that an event occurred.
