Cognitive Psychology by K. Gilhooly, F. Lyddy, and F. Pollick (first edition) - Book summary
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The case of H.M demonstrates three important aspects of long-term memory processes:
Amnesia refers to a pattern of memory loss affecting elements of long-term memory, while short-term memory remains intact. It is sometimes also called the amnesic syndrome. Amnesia has a number of general characteristics:
Ribot’s law states that recently formed memories are more susceptible to impairment than are older memories. The Wechsler Memory Scale is a widely used neurocognitive assessment that measures visual memory, auditory memory and working memory. There are several causes for amnesia, such as brain surgery, infections, head injuries, a stroke or Korsakoff’s syndrome, in which a thiamine (vitamin B1) deficiency causes brain damage.
James made the difference between primary and secondary memory. Secondary memory is long-term memory. Verbal learning refers to the area of experimental psychology concerned with how we learn and remember language-based items. There is a distinction in long-term memory between the following to long-term memory types:
There are three types of recollection of information from the memory:
Tulving proposed a distinction within declarative memory. The distinction can also be seen as a difference between remembering and knowing.
There are different types of non-declarative memory, all showing implicit memory:
Tulving notes three key properties of episodic memory. It is associated with our subjective sense of time, there is a connection to the self and the mental time travel is associated with a special kind of conscious awareness called autonoetic consciousness. Autonoetic consciousness allows humans to use memory to relive past events and imagine ourselves in the future, from a self-perspective.
Memory is constructive and when we recall our past experiences, we reconstruct the event in our minds, using information gained before, after and at the time of the event itself. Schemas are organized memory structures that allow us to apply past experience to novel situations so as to guide behaviour. Schemas produce expectations that reduce the ambiguity of new situations, although these expectations an lead to erroneous judgements. The adaptive function of memory is using the cognitive functions to focus on the aspects that contribute to thinking about the future. The memory that allows us to keep track of plans and carry out intended actions is called prospective memory. Prospective memory allows us to remember to perform certain actions. Prospective memory lapses often involve a failure to interrupt habitual routines. Action slips involve an action being completed when it was not intended (e.g: sugar in the teapot instead of the pot).
There are event-based and time-based prospective memory tasks. Event-based memory may be triggered by a particular cue. Time-based memory may be triggered by a particular time. Pulses are intentions that are time-locked (e.g: dinner has to be taken out of the oven in 30 minutes). The intentions must be carried out at a particular time. Steps are intentions that have a wider time frame in which they can occur (e.g: I have to call John some time this week). There is evidence that obsessive-compulsive behaviours arise from a deficit in prospective memory.
Autobiographical memories are episodic memories for personally experienced events in a person’s life. False memories are inaccurate recollections of events that did not occur or distortions of events that did occur. Imagining false events increases the likelihood that they will be recalled. This is called the imagination inflation, the strengthening of a false memory through repeated retrieval. Demand characteristics are the aspects of a research study which convey hypotheses or aims to the participants and may thereby shape performance. Disputed memories happen with siblings that are close in age, where the ownership of the memory is not clear. The siblings both believe that they were the protagonist of the memory.
Déjà vu is a type of illusion of autobiographical memory. It is the knowledge that a situation could not have been experienced, combined with the feeling that it has. There are three possible mechanisms for déjà vu:
Semantic memory is our store of general knowledge about the world. Metamemory is the ability to monitor and inspect the content of memory. It allows us to know whether we know something (e.g: the likelihood that we know something, which we cannot currently recall). The long-lasting store of knowledge was referred to by Bahrick as the permastore. The permastore involves the long-term retention of content that has been acquired and relearned over a period of time, even if rarely used thereafter (e.g: people remember Spanish words learned in high school up to 50 years after high school).
This bundle contains everything you need to know for the third interim exam of Introduction to Psychology for the University of Amsterdam. It uses the book "Cognitive Psychology by K. Gilhooly, F. Lyddy, and F. Pollick (first edition)". The bundle contains the following chapters:
- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
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This bundle describes a summary of the book "Cognitive Psychology by K. Gilhooly, F. Lyddy, and F. Pollick (first edition)". The following chapters are used:
- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.
This bundle contains everything you need to know for the third interim exam of Introduction to Psychology for the University of Amsterdam. It uses the book "Cognitive Psychology by K. Gilhooly, F. Lyddy, and F. Pollick (first edition)". The bundle contains the
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