Memory Part 2

Memory Part 2

1. Aquisiton

   • 2 levels of processing
     • deep
       • focus on meaning, more likely to recall
     • shallow
       • less likely to recall
   • meaning: attention greater level of brain activity to better recall
   • connections
     • Mnemonics
       • not useful for understanding
       • Rhymes, mental imagery or acronyms

2. storage

   • consolidation
     • stores info, process after aquisition
     • retrogade amnesia
       • damage to hippocampus
   • people forget things when drinking alcohol as it interrupts the consolidation process (Moulton et al. 2005)

3. retrieval

   • context reinstatement
     • easier to retrieve info if put in same context it was learnt (Grant et al. 1998)
   • Encoding Specificity Principles
     • backtracking to remember something that has been forgot
   • retrieval cues
     • most effective when they match level of processing
       • things that help you remember

4. Misinformation Effect

   • confirmation bias
   • race bias
   • remembering things differently
   • schemas
     • mental representations
       • levelling
       • rationalising
       • sharpening

5. forgetting

   • forgetting info due to other info interfering
     • retroactive interferance
       • recent info interferes with retrieval of old info
     • proactive interferance
       • old info interferes with retrieval of new info