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week 6 - long term memory
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- 1exposure and rehearsaldeep processing involves analysing the meaning of the material being remembered
shallow processing only focuses on surface features and leads to weaker recall - 2long term memoryinformation is more durable in the LTM than the STM
duration of memory can be our lifetime
different types: episodic, semantic and procedural - 3explicit / declarativeexplicit memories must be retrieved
episodic - personal life experiences
semantic - general knowledge - 4implicitimplicit can be automatic
procedural - physical skills and actions e.g. driving - 5mechanisms of forgettingpassage of time - decay of forgetting
new memories interfere with old memories - interference theory
cue-dependent - changes in contextual information - 6two types of interference1. proactive - earlier learning interferes with later learning
2. retroactive - later learning disrupts earlier learning - 7cuessemantic - group of words presented with others belonging to the same semantic category
state-dependent - state of mind while encoding affects later memories
context - environment where the learning takes place - 8Godden and Baddeley (1975)tested divers' memories either on land or under water
retention was 50% higher when context remained the same - 9Clive Wearingcontracted encephalitis
rare viral infection that causes severe brain damage
suffered widespread damage to his brain including medial temporal lobe structures e.g. hippocampus and amygdala
damage resulted in dense amnesia consisting of both retrograde and anterograde impairments of episodic memory - 10retrograde amnesiainability to remember events that happened before the injury
- 11anterograde amnesiainability to encode and store new information into the LTM following brain injury
- 12HMamnesic patient, developed amnesia following surgery on temporal lobe to treat severe epilepsy
had severe anterograde amnesia
HM case associated specific areas of the brain which links with anterograde amnesia
also had some retrograde amnesia
had a normal STM span
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