PSYC 3430H Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Autobiographical Memory, Forgetting Curve, Synapse

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3430H
• Professor: Nader Rebecca

Document Summary

Intentional forgetting as well as forgetting triggered by motivations but lacking conscious intention. Able to remember from age 8 and on. Could not remember events she was questioned about a month earlier. Logarithmic decline in memory retention as a function of time elapsed. Internet questionnaire tested recall for popular o o. Ability to recall a name given the picture. Binary distinction indicating whether a trace is or is not. Ease with which a stored memory can be retrieved at a. Older memories are more durable and less easily forgotten. New memories are vulnerable to loss, until they have been integrated, and interconnected with other memories. Memory is vulnerable until consolidation has occurred o. Gradual weakening of memories due to passage or time still intact. Gradual and persistent drift in incidental retrieval context over time events. Tendency for older children and adults to have few autobiographical memories from early years of life.