memory

• what is retrograde amnesia ?

  when patients are unable to remember events before the injury that led to amnesia
• what is a strength of the multi-store memory model?

  studies of brain-damaged patients provide strong evidence for distinctions between the STM and the LTM because brain damage can affect one store and not the other
• What is encoding?

  Information from our senses is converted into a chemical that is stored and used in the brain
• What is anterograde amnesia?

  when patients able to recall events from before their injury but unable to store new information into the long-term memory.
• What is a schema?


  • packet of knowledge from a person,place or event that influence how we remember things
• What is reductionism?

  Reducing complex phenomena to simpler explanations or components.
• What is Holism?

  Holism is the belief that systems should be viewed as a whole, rather than as a collection of individual parts.
• What is retrieval? 


  the process of recalling information that had previously been stored in the memory
• what is omission?

  leaving out unfamiliar, irrelevant or unpleasant details when remembering
• what is familiarisation?

  changing unfamiliar details to align our schema
• what is rationalisation?

  adding details to recall to give a reason for something
• what is transformation?

  details changed to make them more rational
• what is displacement?

  memory becomes full so new information pushes out old information
• what is interference?

  when new information overwrites old information
• what is recency?

  Recency refers to the principle that people tend to remember information that was presented to them most recently.
• what is a sensory register?

  our immediate memory for sensory information
• what is attention?

  when a person noticed and is interested in a stimuli