everyday memory/memory errors

Question 1

autobiographical memory

Answer 1

• what happens in your life

Question 2

childhood/infantile amnesia

Answer 2

• inability to remember before age 3
• children can encode memories but not access them

Question 3

retrograde childhood amnesia (events before age 3) starts at age ____ and is fully forgotten at age ____

Answer 3

7, 10

Question 4

can memories survive childhood amnesia?

Answer 4

• yes
• highly emotional (caused big reaction, can be due to emotion response from others)
• memories you develop a story around the event

Question 5

t or f: memories are not just in your head

Answer 5

true, they are also in your social interactions
- long term partners develop interconnected memory systems

Question 6

socially distributed cog systems

Answer 6

• recalling info together leads to better ability to recall autobiographical info
• more vivid, more info, new info, rely on others to recall info you wouldnt have before

Question 7

memory and emotion

Answer 7

• better memory for emotional events
• enhances encoding (emotional public events, traumatic personal experiences)
• link between memory and emotion (amygdala speeds up processing)
• why: attentional focus/intensity, encoding depth, rehearsal/review, emotions are a retrieval cue

Question 8

Flashbulb memories

Answer 8

• linked to emotional/surprising event, enhanced consolidation
• vivid memory
• autobiographical
• ‘snapshot’ in your mind
• can be positive or negative
• susceptible to change

Question 9

t or f: emotionality does not effect how vividly emotions are remembered

Answer 9

false, it does

Question 10

after researching flashbulb memories, what was suggested that they depend on

Answer 10

• prior knowledge
• personal importance
• emotional state
• overt rehearsal

Question 11

Hypermnesia

Answer 11

• superior autobiographical memory
• brain holds onto mundane events how people regularly hold onto emotional ones
• remember events they experience in great detail
• no other memory strengths
• have habit/organization/skill learning present in OCD patients (does not interfere w functioning however)
• still experience childhood amnesia

Question 12

t or f: adrenalin improves memory

Answer 12

true

Question 13

Narritre rehearsal hypothesis

Answer 13

People’s memories of significant events are due to rehearsal