Cognitive Psychology Questions

researchers have theories on retrieval failure, such as problems with the info in storage, the effects of time, personal reasons of remembering or forgetting and the brains condition

is better recall for info at the end of a list

is involved in the implicit memories required perform various skills

a. are a form of episodic memory of a persons life experiences b. lifetime periods c. general events d. event-specific knowledge e. when people tell their life stories, all 3 levels are usually present and intertwined f. most autobiographical memories are compromised of some truth and some myth

is more active in encoding, older adults begin to use this for retrieval which compensates for memory problems

is a memory task that is used when a person needs to retire previously learned info from storageex: used on essay exams

a. eyewitness territory occurs when people asked to report exactly what they saw or heard as it related to a crime b. it is estimated that 7,500 people in the u.s. are arrested for and wrongly convicted of serous crimes due to eyewitness testimonyc. popular shows such as CSI or other crime scene dramas give the impression that DNA Is widely available to protect innocent people from false accusations when in fact less than 5% of legal cases include eyewitness testimony and biological evidence d. eyewitness testimony remains an important piece of evidence and officials are applying psychological research to improve the ways they conduct criminal lineups

states that neurochemical memory traces disintegrate over time, suggests that forgetting always increase with the passage of time

state as it is sometimes referred to, occurs when we almost remember something and are confident we know it, but cannot retrieve it. this phenomenon occurs when we retrieve some of the info but not all it.-research on this has shown that the sounds of words are linked in memory even if their meanings are not

- some memories have special significance= because of reverence to the self, because of their emotional or traumatic character, or because they have unusually high levels or apparent accuracy

when info was never stored into long-term memory in the first place, there is a problem with

occurs when people are used to report exactly what they saw or heard as it relates to a crime

the temporal lobes in cerebral cortex and other parts of the limbic system are involved in explicit memories

occurs when a person cannot remember new info, this disorder occurs forward doom the time of the event causing the amnesia.-consider anterograde involving the inability to make new memories

when info that was learned at a previous time interrupts the learning of new info its called

neuroscientists have greatly benefited from the use of this, which allows them to track neutral activity during cognitive tasks

is based on theory that memories are stored throughout brain in connections among neurons

is the tendency to remember info that falls at the beginning and the end of a list more easily than the info in the middle

a. Karl Lashley (1950) discovered that memories are not stored in one specific area of the brain, but through various parts

a. flashbulbb. most flashbulb memories are of personal nature rather than some national event c. most people feel they are completely accurate in remembering the exact events that occurred in flashbulb memory, but they are probably not as accurate as they think. still more accurate that everyday memories. (emotional arousal triggered by the event contributes to the vividness and durability of the memory)