PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Anterograde Amnesia, Retrograde Amnesia, Interference Theory
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Psyc 101 lecture 15 - memory 2. Long term potentiation if two neurons are activated at the same time, the connection between them (thus the memory) may be strengthened: many neurotransmitters are involved, serotonin, glutamate, acetylcholine. Forgetting: decay theory a description of forgetting as the gradual disappearance of information from memory, decay occurs when our ability to retrieve information we do not use fades over time. If you don"t use it you lose it : decay can be undone by relearning. Relearning method a method for measuring forgetting. If it takes you 20 tries to learn something and only ten to relearn it, you have 50% savings . If information isn"t properly encoded, it cannot enter the storage system and you won"t have access to it in the future. If information is encoded and stored, you may not have the proper cues to retrieve it. The information may be there, but it"s inaccessible.
