PSY30400 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Semantic Memory, Free Recall, Optical Illusion
Take Home Points Exam 3
• Long-term memory: encoding, retrieval, false memory
o Encoding problems
▪ Not much elaborate processing at encoding
▪ Over activation
▪ Compensatory recruitment (lateral)
o Cues less effective
▪ Free recall terrible
▪ Retrieval cues much less helpful
o False memories are more likely
▪ More likely to fall for DRM
• more likely to fall for phone call scams
▪ Bad source monitoring
o Binding long term is less effective
▪ hippocampus decline
▪ Worst for name-face association
▪ Okay name, okay recognition but the combo is hardest
• Semantic memory
o Semantic improves in the long term
o Remains at least in tact
Culture
• Picture processing
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