Psychology

Information about past or recent events

General world knowledge accumulated throughout life, personal experience

Memory for one’s personal own history

Recollecting a memory without remembering the specific experience

Encoding is receiving and interpreting the information, the rest is self explanatory

Pioneered the study of Human memory (1850-1909)

Hypothesises the decline of memory retention in time

Mental memory of how an environment looks feels or tastes

Integrating different memory information into one memory

Repeating information out loud or in your head, only good for short term memory

Came up with Maintenance rehearsal

Associating other things with what you have learned, helps covert it into long term memory

A type of amnesia that means new memories cannot be formed, it’s often temporary

The process by which a short term memory is transferred into a more long term memory

When you can’t recall memories from your past

The use of outside factors to improve retention and comprehension of information

Adding to a past memory, Like meeting someone again and reforming the thoughts around them a bit

Remembering information to the wrong source

Developing false memories for events that didnt happen

Point of contact between neurons

Endogynous cells that allow neurons to communicate with other neurons

A neurotransmitter that plays a roll in memory, learning, attention, arousal and involuntary muscle movement

A structure within or outside a cell consisting of liquid or cytoplasm enclosed by a lipid bylayer

Gross brain electrical activity

Record of the electrical dipole occurring between the front and back of the eye, eye movements

measures nerves resonse in the muscle, muscle movements

Vivid halucinations / falling asleep times

Central vision

The grouping of information

Where brain skin folds in

LGN - optic nerves go through this after the eye

Likes spots of light

‘What’ pathway, goes towards the temporal lobe

‘Where’ pathway, goes towards the parietal lobe

Absence of colour vision

Can’t see moving objects, v5 damage

Peppery mask, v1 damage

Failiure of object recogniton due to spatial perceptual impairment. No more than 1 object at a time.

Can see multiple objects at once but not clearly

Failiure of object recognition, can describe object but not name it.