PSYC 6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Memory Inhibition, Episodic Memory, Histone Deacetylase

• School: Irvine Valley College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 6
• Professor: cassens

Document Summary

Persistence- unwanted memories are remembered in spite of the desire not to have them. Ptsd- commonly triggered by emotional events that threaten peple. Associated with amygdala activity, underlies the persistence of certain memories. Propranolol- memory inhibited drug, blocks postsynaptic receptors for norepinephrine. Hdac inhibitors- by inhibiting during reconsolidation, able to reduce conditioned fear response. Essentially recalling it, then having it erased. Memory bias- changing of memories over time so that they become consistent with current beliefs or attitudes. People tend to recall past beliefs and past attitudes as being consistent with. Flashbulb memories can be wrong current ones. Flashbulb memories- vivid memories are of circumstances in which people first learned of a surprising and consequential or emotionally arousing event. Memory declined in first year, but afterwards remained stable. Von restorff effect- distinctive even might be recalled more easily than a. People make source misattribution trivial event, even if memory is inaccurate.