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Psychology Week 6: Consolidation/reconsolidation: How Are Memories Encoded Into Long-Term Memory
Psychology Week 6: Consolidation/reconsolidation: How Are Memories Encoded Into Long-Term Memory
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Integration Hypothesis: Alternative hypothesis; decreased retention
caused by amnesic treatment only occurs after a delay. This lead to
suggesting a diff hypothesis when consolidation effects are caused by
state-dependent learning. We learn better when internal state at testing
matches the internal state during encoding.
Prospective Memory: memory for future events
Prospective Memory: Remembering something to do in the future
Retrospective memory: Remembering information from events in the
past.
Ecological VALIDITY:
PROSPECTIVE MEMORY OCCURS AMONGST OTHER TASKS.
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Omits planning, artificial, and prospective memory task is not part of a
well-practiced sequence
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Types of prospective tasks:
Event-based: do x when y occurs
Time-based: do x after 30 minutes
Activity-based: do x when you finish y
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Supported by; enhancing processing discrepancy enhances prospective
memory performance, distinctive cues improve prospective memory
performance
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Impaired by damage to medical temporal cortex (implies role of episodic
memory)