PSYC 301L Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Free Recall, Autopsy, Clive Wearing
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Long term memory is an archive of events and facts. Lecture 11: works closely with working memory. This results in cognition: recent memories are more detailed than memories of a week, month, or year ago. Visual coding- coding using visual images: short term memory: recalling visual patterns, long term memory: visualizing someone or something from the past. Your kindergarten teacher or your childhood home. Semantic encoding in short term memory: proactive interference and release from it. Semantic encoding in long term memory: recognition memory- recognize meaning or words, recognition- multiple choice questions. Distinguish new from old: recall- fill in the blank. Hippocampus encodes long term memory: h. m. had hippocampus removed. Hippocampus was removed to try to help with his seizures. Ethics of this procedure were highly questionable. Short term memory vs. long term memory: also plays a role in short term memory as found by facial recognition experiment (new faces vs. old faces)
