PSYC 2014 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Anterograde Amnesia, Reminiscence Bump, Autobiographical Memory
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The tip of the tongue phenomenon is similar to a feeling of knowing as they both stem from meta-memory or an awareness of one"s memory system and what resides there. Tip of the tongue is when info similar to the target info is retrieved but not the info itself. Feeling of knowing is the feeling people get when they know they know something but can"t recall it at the time. Explicit memory processes are disordered: episodic, semantic, and autobiographical memory is disordered/impaired. Implicit memory processes are retained: sensory, working, perceptual, and procedural memory is not impaired. So you can identify patterns when the temporal lobe is disordered but you cannot store life memories in sequence for example. Failure of source monitoring: you don"t know where the information came from aka how you know this knowledge. Results in the alteration of the recovered memories- may not be stored in memory as an accurate narrative of what actually occurred.
