Cognitive Psychology And Its Implications

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anterograde amnesia

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condition that prevents someone from forming new memories

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hippocampus

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storage of new memories

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frefrontal

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encoding new memories and retrieval of old memories

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partial-report procedure

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an expirmental procedure in which participants are cued to report only some of the items in a display

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episodic memory

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recall or recognition of life episodes that necessarily involves conscious recollection of the past

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semantic memory

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conceptual/ factual knowledge of the world

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procedural memory

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skill or habit based memories that need not involve conscious recollection

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explicit memory

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knowledge that we consciously recall

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implicit memory

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knowledge that we cannot consciously recall but that nontheless manifest itself in our improved performance on some task

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Encoding specificity Principle- tulving

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an item will be retriveable given some retrieval cue to the extent thaat the relation between the cue and the target has been encoded into memory previously

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standinf 1000 pictures 3 seconds each

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88% if vivid
77% if normal
61.5% if words

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Bahrick 1976 for faces

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90% of faces of classmates up to 35 years after graaduation

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DRM Paradigm

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Deese- Roediger McDermott Paradigm- a paradigm for creating false memories of words by presenting associatively related words

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short term memory

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a proposed intermediate memory system that holds information as it travels from sensory memory to long term memory

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working memory

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the information that is currently available in memory for working on a problem

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Primacy Effect

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the tendency for the first items presented in a series to be remembered better or more easily

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Recency Effect

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the principle that the most recently presented items or experirences will most likely be remembered best

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Organic Amnesia

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loss of memory resulting from head trauma, substence abuse, or epliepsy, not traumatic experience
-inabilty to form new memoriess or recall old ones, ok on stm, repeating series of 5 or 6 digits

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Short term memory capacity

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7+/-2

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Modal Model of Memory

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Stimulus-- Sensory registors--short term memory (rehersal)--long term memory
the longer an item stays in short term memory the more likley it will go to LTM