Chapter 5 Encoding And Retrieval From Long Term Memory

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memory

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internal respository of stored information

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long term memory

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information that is acquired in the course of an experience and that persists so that it can be retrieved long after the experience is past.

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declarative memory

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consists of episodic and semantic memory, can be conciously recalled, both depend on the medial temporal lobes

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episodic memory

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memory of events in our own personal past

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semantic memory

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more generic memory, general knowledge about things in the world and their meaning.

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non declarative memory, implicity memory

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nonconscious forms of ltm tha are expressed as a change in behavior without any conscious recollection

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patient h.m.

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cannot form new memories, removed his medial temporal lobes, removing the hippocampus, amygdala. can remember things prior to the surgery but has not been able to form a declarative memory since. can form new motor skills, nondeclarative memories

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anterograde amnesia

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the inability consciously to remmeber information encountered after brain damage

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retrograde amnesia

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the forgetting of events that occured before the damge to the brain

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three stages of memory processing

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encoding, consolidation/storage, retrieval

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encoding

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various processes by which information is transformed into a memory representation

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levels of processing

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there are various aspects of any given stimulus that can be attended and processed. elaborating or exploring mulitple aspects of new information

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incidental learning

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non intential learning, happens as a result of performing a task.

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consolidation

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a process that modifies representations such that they become more stble over time and ultimately exist independently of the medial temporal lobes