WEEK 5 Memory And Attention PDF

Week 5 Thursday, October 3, 2024 11:25 AM Fall 2024 - PSYC3330... - Same way as other memories, involving hippocampus, Para hippocampal cortex, amygdala and parts of frontal cortex - How theyre initially acquired, emotional state of person when its coded, consolidated +...

Week 5 Thursday, October 3, 2024 11:25 AM Fall 2024 - PSYC3330... - Same way as other memories, involving hippocampus, Para hippocampal cortex, amygdala and parts of frontal cortex - How theyre initially acquired, emotional state of person when its coded, consolidated + retrieved, stress can disrupt consolidation, cues in environment, drugs etc Memory and Attention Page 1  - These memories hold meaning to ourselves, the world around us - Kind of makes up our personality/who we are as our person - Who are we without autobiographical memory? - trusting Significance in world Existential despair - Healthy people rely on happy memories Memory and Attention Page 2  Usually researchers use this First three improve recall - Positive - Negative - Number of times u test improves memory - Time + retrieval - Actively pulling out of long term memory Memory and Attention Page 3 - Writing down question to recall later - Get memory thru different pathways Memory and Attention Page 4  - Major life events that ur more likely to remember - Perinatal change - right after birth - Preadolescent - hormonal changes, synaptogenesis - Gen z maturational change has changes to a bit older - Cultural shfits covid etc - Positivity bias - Helps w existential despair - Different levels of importance towards event - Positive + control r super important - Emotional valence (negative event or positive?) - Extent of control over event (surpirse?) Memory and Attention Page 5 - 9/11--> everyone can rmr where they were - Default mode network: - Attention - Spatial processing - Behavioural responses (rapid responses) - Boundary btwn sensory and - Sensory, motor, visio; vision, directing attention + planning - Top, centre, self processing - Personal semantics - Elaborating on selected info in wm - Selection in retrieval cues - Mediating btwn diff types of memory - Encoding consolidaitong etc - Associative memory classical + operative conditing Memory and Attention Page 6 - Hippocampus is reactivated - Happens a lot when u sleep - Like it’s a fact, not something that rlly happened to u - Memory and Attention Page 7 - Could be a mechanism associated with emotional disorders --> depression/anxiety - Decreased positive connection - Not being able to stop negative thinking pattern - Cant selectively draw upon positive memories Memory and Attention Page 8 - Contributing factors - Mediating actions that lead 2 disorder - Hyperthymesia - Ard -> help restore? Recall - Retrieval experience: calendar --> - Consolidation during sleep linking dates w/ events, dates + info - Fewer/weaker spindles (both semantic and episodic), - Training/drug can boost spindle? anchoring herself/her memories, - Boost consolidation and improve memory? which way is it anchored? - Help slow progression of disease Dates/events --> to self - Different retrieval experiences --> game board w/ paths + colours u can move back/forth - Both arranged in hierarchal manner - Filing cabinet - Challenges--> anxiety/depression, getting stuck - Correct