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What is collaborative inhibition?
What is collaborative inhibition?
Which statement best describes transience in memory?
Which statement best describes transience in memory?
What is retroactive interference?
What is retroactive interference?
What causes absentmindedness according to the content?
What causes absentmindedness according to the content?
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Which type of memory failure is associated with memory misattribution?
Which type of memory failure is associated with memory misattribution?
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What does suggestibility in memory refer to?
What does suggestibility in memory refer to?
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Change bias affects memory by doing what?
Change bias affects memory by doing what?
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What is the role of the left frontal lobe in memory?
What is the role of the left frontal lobe in memory?
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Which phenomenon describes the feeling of familiarity with a new situation as if it has happened before?
Which phenomenon describes the feeling of familiarity with a new situation as if it has happened before?
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What is proactive interference?
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Study Notes
Collaborative Memory
- Collaboration can improve memory.
- Collaborative inhibition: groups recall fewer items than individuals working alone.
Forgetting
- Transience: Forgetting increases with time, but most forgetting occurs soon after the event.
- Retroactive interference: Later learning impairs earlier memories.
- Proactive interference: Earlier learning impairs later memories.
Absentmindedness
- Absentmindedness: A lapse in attention leading to memory failure.
- Dividing attention prevents proper semantic encoding in the lower left frontal lobe.
- Prospective memory failures contribute to absentmindedness.
Blocking
- Blocking: Inability to retrieve available information.
- Blocking is common for names and locations due to weaker connections to related concepts.
Memory Misattribution
- Memory misattribution: Incorrectly assigning a memory or idea to the wrong source.
- Source memory: Recalling when, where, and how information was learned.
- Deja vu: feeling of familiarity with something that should be unfamiliar.
- Frontal lobe damage increases errors in memory misattribution.
- Similar brain regions are active during true and false recognition, including the hippocampus.
Suggestibility
- Suggestibility: Incorporating misleading information into memories.
- Incomplete memory storage makes us susceptible to suggestions.
Bias
- Bias: Present knowledge, beliefs, and feelings affect memory recall.
- Current mood influences memory of past experiences.
- Change bias: Exaggerating differences between past and present beliefs.
- People remember the past as they want it to be, not how it truly was.
Persistence
- Persistence: Unwanted recollection of events.
- Emotional experiences create more vivid, lasting memories.
- Flashbulb memories: Detailed memories of surprising events.
- The amygdala and hormonal systems play a key role in the vividness of these memories.
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Explore the nuances of memory through this quiz on collaborative memory, forgetting, absentmindedness, blocking, and memory misattribution. Test your understanding of the factors that affect memory performance and the different types of memory failures. Perfect for psychology students looking to deepen their knowledge of cognitive processes.
