FORGETTING AND MEMORY IMPROVEMENT Vocabulary and review

FORGETTING 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

IF YOUR MIND WAS LIKE A STORAGE CABINET….

DAL, RIK, & KAX

What do these syllables mean to you…. • Herman Ebbinghaus • How could you remember

them????

RECOGNITION (IT IS THE EASIEST OF MEMORY TASKS... WHY?)

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

WHICH SYLLABLES WERE IN THE FIRST LIST?

BEV MAC KAN LIN

DON FUT, REN CET GAT TAT

WOT

RECALLSEARCHING 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…

EIDETIC MEMORY

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

RELEARNING- 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

DECAY

Decay: Fading away of memory over timeThis also occurs in long term MemoryREPRESSION: forgetting things on purpose. We tend to forget painful memories, to protect ourselves from disturbingmemories, we pushed them outof our consciousness

INTERFERENCE

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 memoriesCauses:• Repressions• Boring and bland events• Hippocampus is not fully developed

yet• No reliable use of language to

symbolize events

RECONSTRUCTIVE PROCESS

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

CONFABULATION

The act of filling in memory gaps

RETROGRADE AMNESIA

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

ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA

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

SCHEMAS

Conceptual frames-works a person uses to make sense of the world

Helps organize and interpret information Ex: Horse, cow, pony.

ELABORATIVE REHEARSAL

The linking of new information to material that is already known

MNEMONIC DEVICES

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