Parts of the Brain
What role do the left and ride sides of the prefrontal cortex play in memory?
The left side is involved in the encoding of memory while the right side is involved in the retrieval of memory
What is suggestibility and how does it limit memory?
Suggestibility describes the effect of misinformation from other sources that leads to the creation of false memories.
What are 2 examples of chunking?
1. Breaking down a project into 3, 2-hour sessions instead of a 6-hour session.
2. Breaking down a phone number from 10 digits to chunks of 3, 3, and 4.
Which part of the brain effects the emotional arousal of memory?
Amygdala
What are two examples of suggestibility?
1. Someone witnessing an argument and when told to retell the events of a "huge fight", they distort it with fabrications of it being a huge fight and not an argument.
2. A witness' testimony being altered because of the police's suggestions during an interview influences the mind into believing those things happened, distorting the true memory.
Which memory-enhancing strategy is organizing information into manageable bits/chunks?
Chunking
Which part of memory is the hippocampus involved in?
Normal recognition memory and spatial memory
Recalling something that did not happen or recalling it differently from the sequence of events that did occur. The memory is distorted from the original.
False Memories
A technique in which you think about the meaning of new information and its relation to knowledge already stored in your memory. What is an example of this?
Elaborative Rehearsal
1. Remembering someone's name by associating them with an image. Like meeting someone named Cliff and thinking of a steep rock face.
Which part of the brain is involved in the creation of implicit memories?
Cerebellum
Two examples of false memories
1. Experiencing something young and an adult telling you the story differently so it warps the memory you previously had.
2. You and a friend are in an argument about a movie scene. You swear it went one way but your friend disagrees. You rewatch it and it seems they were right.
Memory aids that help us organize information for encoding.
Mnemonic devices
What is the arousal theory?
strong emotion triggers stronger memories while weak emotions trigger weaker memories
The exposure of additional and inaccurate information after the event took place, makes the person misremember the original event. What are examples of this?
Misinformation Effect
1. An eyewitness's memory of an event due to some questions being asked based on the words used in the question.
2. A question like "Did you see the broken light" implies that a light was broken even though it wasn't and the witness assumes it was.
An example of mnemonic device
Someone having trouble remembering order of operations so they get taught PEMDAS. P: Parenthesis. E: Exponents. M: Multiplication. D: Divison. A: Addition. S: Subtraction.