F ORGETTING AND M EMORY I MPROVEMENT Vocabulary and review

F ORGETTING SOMETHING IS NOT THAT SIMPLE SINCE IT CAN HAPPEN IN ANY OF THE 3 STAGES IF MEMORY. Sensory Memory Short Term Memory Long Term Memory

I F YOUR MIND WAS LIKE A STORAGE CABINET ….

DAL, RIK, & KAX What do these syllables mean to you…. Herman Ebbinghaus How could you remember them????

R ECOGNITION (I T IS THE EASIEST OF MEMORY TASKS... W HY ?) Memory retrieval in which a person identifies an object, idea, or situation as one he or she has or had not experienced before. MOT, FIR, FUT, KAN, SEN, BOG Yearbooks pics

W HICH SYLLABLES WERE IN THE FIRST LIST ? BEV MAC KAN LIN DON FUT, REN CET GAT TAT WOT

R ECALL S EARCHING FOR SOMETHING AND POSSIBLY RECONSTRUCTING IT Memory retrieval in which a person reconstructs previously learned material. Reading out loud a bunch of syllables and then seeing how many you can recall If you memorized a list of words… An hour later… A month later…

E IDETIC M EMORY The ability to remember with great accuracy visual information on the basis of short-term exposure

R ELEARNING - WITH SOME EFFORT WE COULD FAIRLY AND RAPIDLY RELEARN SOMETHING WE ONCE FORGOT Summer break Your parents who have been out of school for a while

D ECAY Decay: Fading away of memory over time This also occurs in long term Memory REPRESSION: forgetting things on purpose. We tend to forget painful memories, to protect ourselves from disturbing memories, we pushed them out of our consciousness

I NTERFERENCE Blockage of a memory by previous or subsequent memories or loss of a retrieval cue Occurs when new information shoves aside old info

Amnesia: Severe memory loss caused by trauma to the brain (fall, blow to the head, electric shock, brain surgery, stroke.) There are several types of amnesia but they are all extremely rare. Infantile Amnesia- refers to episodic memory We all experience this You may think that you can remember when you were an infant…but chances are you can’t. Most are reconstructed memories Causes: Repressions Boring and bland events Hippocampus is not fully developed yet No reliable use of language to symbolize events

R ECONSTRUCTIVE P ROCESS The alteration of a recalled memory that may be simplified enriched or, distorted, depending on an individual’s experience, attitudes or inferences.

C ONFABULATION The act of filling in memory gaps

R ETROGRADE A MNESIA People who suffer from retrograde amnesia forget the period leading to traumatic event. Football player – no recollection before the game or how he got to the game Motorcycle accident – no memory had happened since he was 11 years old

A NTEROGRADE A MNESIA Memory loss of events that take place after the trauma. People lose the ability to store new memories More common than retrograde amnesia Transient Global Amnesia is profound anterograde amnesia that begins abruptly and lasts less than a day

S CHEMAS Conceptual frames-works a person uses to make sense of the world Helps organize and interpret information Ex: Horse, cow, pony.

E LABORATIVE R EHEARSAL The linking of new information to material that is already known

M NEMONIC D EVICES Techniques of memorizing information by forming vivid associations or images, which facilitate recall and decrease forgetting