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13 Cards in this Set
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Power law of forgetting |
Forgetting described as a function which negatively accelerated, meaning the change gets smaller with the delay. LTP change as well. |
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Fan effect |
Concerning interference theory, the more facts associated with a concept the slower is retrieval of any one of the facts because activation is spread across the facts leaving a low activation for every fact, thus harder and slower retrival. |
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False-memory syndrome |
Concerns individuals claiming to recover memories of sexual abuse from childhood, which were repressed. This recovery usually happens in process of therapy with possibly leading/suggestive questions from the therapist which leads the individual to make inferences. |
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Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm |
Used to explore the neural basis for false memories, contains true items, false items (related) and new items (unrelated). |
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Mood-congruence |
Effect of better recall for memories corresponding to current mood. |
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State-dependent learning |
Phenomenon of facilitated recall for material studied when the same emotional and physical state under test as under study. |
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Encoding-specificity principle |
Principle of similarities between study context and test context, where recall is better when the information available at study (providing context) is also available at test. |
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Korsakoff syndrome |
Condition resulting from chronic alcoholism, damages on structures in temporal lobe such as the hippocampal formation and can result in two types of amnesia. |
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Retrograde amnesia |
Memory loss for events which occurred before the injury. |
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Anterograde amnesia |
Inability to learn new things. |
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Explicit memory |
The memories one can consciously recall, declare. |
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Implicit memory |
The memories that one remembers in action, cannot declare. |
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Procedural knowledge |
A type of knowledge that is implicit, non declarative and is expressed through action. Basal ganglia with its connections to the prefrontal cortex, supports procedural learning. |
