Flashbulb memories - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

PSYC 110N Week 3 Assignment; Flashbulb Memories

Define memory, and explain how flashbulb memories differ from other memories - ANSWER Memory is the persistence of learning over time, through the storage and retrieval of information. Flashbulb memories, which are attached to emotionally significant moments or events, differ from most other memories in their striking clarity. Describe Atkinson-Shiffrin's classic three-stage processing model of memory, explain how the contemporary model of working memory differs. - ANSWER Suggests that ...

General slowing Hypothesis - Answer The older you get the longer lapse you have to recall things. Attentional hypothesis - Answer Aging reduces available cognitive resources Inhibitory deficit hypothesis - Answer Aging reduces ability to tune out irrelevant infomation. Context processing deficiency hypothesis - Answer Aging reduces ability to take instructions/context into account. Components of working memory - Answer Phonological loop> auditory Visualpsatialpad&g...

How can expectancies affect encoding? How can expectancies affect attention? Know one example of each from class. Ecpectancies affect how we encode ambiguous infomration. They distort what we pay attention to and what judgements we make about things EX: The study that told participants if the new teacher was "warm" or "cold" and then this one description changed how those individuals saw the exact same teacher. Attention: (think positive test strategy) because we are more likely to reme...

AQA A-Level Psychology : Memory Exam Questions with Correct Answers Define Encoding - Answer-the process of changing sensory input into a memory trace for storage Define Storage - Answer-The process of maintaining a record of the memory trace so it can be retrieved Define Retrieval - Answer-The process of accessing and recovering stored information so it can be recalled Define Capacity - Answer-The amount of information that can be held in a memory store Define Duration - Answer-How lon...

AQA A-Level Psychology : Memory Exam Questions with Correct Answers Define Encoding - Answer-the process of changing sensory input into a memory trace for storage Define Storage - Answer-The process of maintaining a record of the memory trace so it can be retrieved Define Retrieval - Answer-The process of accessing and recovering stored information so it can be recalled Define Capacity - Answer-The amount of information that can be held in a memory store Define Duration - Answer-How lon...

Autobiographical Memory recollected events that belong to a person's past Similar to using "mental time travel" to remember events Both episodic memory AND personal semantic memories of facts about our lives Greenberg & Rubin (2003) Damage to certain areas of the visual system causes a loss in AM This is thought to occur because of a loss of retrieval cues and because visual information plays an important role in forming memories Cabeza et al. (2004) looked at brain acti...

Psychology Memory Exam Questions and Correct Answers Which of the following are levels of autobiographical memory?(all that apply) a. prospective memory b. life time periods c. general events d. event-specific knowledge - Answer- life time periods, general events, event-specific knowledge Which of the following are true in regard to memories of traumatic events? (all that apply) a. stress related hormones play a role in memories that involve personal trauma b. they are likely rehea...

Standard Model of Memory (Information Processing Model) Atkinson and Shiffrin Created Information Processing Model -- to encode, store and retrieve. Previous Play Next Rewind 10 seconds Move forward 10 seconds Unmute 0:00 / 0:15 Full screen Brainpower Read More Sensory Memory A type of storage that holds sensory information for a few seconds or less. Two types of Sensory Memory Iconic and echoic iconic memory A momentary sensory memory of visual stim...

Running Head: FLASHBULB MEMORY 1 Review of Flashbulb Memory Chamberlain College of Nursing PSYC 110N – Psychology FLASHBULB ME MORY 2 Memory is very important in the daily life of every individual, without memory we cannot do or learn nothing. “Psychologist considers memory to be the process by which we encode, store and retrieve information”(Robert Feldman, 2018, P-202). Encoding refers to taking information and the transformation of this information to be process by the brain. Storage is...