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- 1Aside from recollection, what else does memory involve?Learning, storing, retention and active reconstruction.
- 2Define learningA change in an organism's behaviour as a result of experience
- 3Define memoryThe ability to recall or recognise previous experience
- 4Define memory traceA mental representation of a previous experience
- 5What did Maguire et al discover about the hippocampus of taxi drivers compared to bus drivers?Taxi drivers had greater grey matter volume in posterior and less in anterior hippocampus as compared to bus drivers.Greater spatial knowledge, more maps and routes stored cause hippocampal changes.
- 6Describe the Brown-Peterson taskProactive interference. The previous trails generate interference, which produces a gradual decline in performance. Then, when the nature of the stimulus changes, the recall is again accurate.
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- Psychology (Memory and language ) Flashcards on 1, created by Craig Wilkinson on 30/05/2017.
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