Cognitive Offloading & Memory PDF

# Cognitive Offloading - People who know something will be recorded paying less attention - Self-testing is very powerful - even just writing what you know on a blank sheet of paper # 8/8 W2 Lecture 3 - Infantile amnesia: Very little memories before the age of 4-5 - Brain areas are not fully form...

# Cognitive Offloading - People who know something will be recorded paying less attention - Self-testing is very powerful - even just writing what you know on a blank sheet of paper # 8/8 W2 Lecture 3 - Infantile amnesia: Very little memories before the age of 4-5 - Brain areas are not fully formed yet - Don't really have schemas yet - Schema makes memories more efficient ### Reminiscence bump: - A lot of memorable things happen around your 20s that people remember 30 years later - Period of rapid brain development - Lots of new things are being tried at that age - Try studious for written work! ### Recognition stays the same as you age - You are asked if you have seen something before - Recall drops as you age - You must recall (blank piece of paper) - Old people don't try as hard to recall - Entirely motivational (vocal, !!!!!) ### Context matters for better recall - Environment - Smells - Sights - Music / Sounds etc ### Seek serenity before / after study period - Sleep - Walk, jog, etc - ## Structural encoding -> Phonetic encoding → Semantic Encoding - Level of depthness → + # Flashbulb memories: Very vivid and detailed memories - Special neural mechanism is activated? (Brown, Kulik) - Most research shows it's no different than everyday memories # Mem Demonstration - 76 - 2/40 - 3) yes | | | | | | | | | | --- | :-- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :-- | :--- | | A | C | A | A | A | C | A | C | | A | C | C | A | A | A | A | C | | C | C | A | A | A | A | A | C | ### Think ### Sorrow ### Truth ### Spine ### Inspire ### Crane ### Implicit memory - You don't know you test - Memory is best tested: - Perceptual identification test - Fragment completion test - ex: th-n- , c-an- ### Explicit memory tasks: - Recalling - Recognizing ### Implicit / Explicit - Do not behave the same way! ## Levels of processing - Modality / format of material - Delay / Retention interval - Lasts longer! - Amnesic patients are unaffected for implicit ### Source confusion (Loftus, 1974) - Hyponosis doesn't improve schemas - Memory only confabulates scripts in memory ### DRM paradigm - Connectivity previously seen words that grind the flow into what's focus ### False Memory - Misleading post event info - Misinformation paradigm - Leading questions / wording of a social pressure - Spreading activation (semantic memory)