PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8-12: Sensory Memory, Memory Consolidation, Episodic Memory
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Cognitive neuroscience memory: biopsychosocial model: everything involves a biological component. Rehearsal: basics of encoding: study: participants are asked to remember 4 digit number, then repeat single word until being prompted to report. > allowing you to remember info better: survival processing: when items are processed as they relate to survival, more likely to be recalled. Flashbulb memories: an extremely vivid and detailed memory about an event and the conditions surrounding how one learned about the event, not necessarily more accurate than other memories. Forgetting and remembering: hermann ebbinghaus & forgetting curves: forgetting occurs right away and that rate of forgetting eventually. * h. m. - major epileptic seizures who had his temporal lobes & hippocampus removed, unable to form new memories, every moment was a new moment. * could not remember anything new, but he could still store information in short term, working memory showing. Stm and ltm involve different systems, he could also recall old memories.
