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STM failure as the result of physical damage |
KF received brain damage from a motorbike accident which dramatically impaired his verbal STM (digit span of ~2) |
patient KF |
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LTM failure as a result of physical damage |
patient HM had parts of his temporal lobes ablated, leading to complete anterograde amnesia, & some level of retrograde amnesia (amnesia effects episodic memory) |
patient HM |
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procedural memory failure as a result of physical damage |
parkinson’s & huntington’s |
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memory failure: absentmindedness |
Craik et al (1996) used cued recap test, found that dividing ps attention at encoding impacts task performance more than dividing attention at retrieval |
Craik et al (1996) |
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memory failure: inability to rehearse |
Patient EA had difficulty learning new words due to a damaged phonological store, preventing maintenance-rehearsal |
patient EA |
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Memory Failure: Failure to elaborately rehearse/ lack of semantic knowledge |
memory for the position of chess pieces is much better in experts compared to novices because they have the semantic knowledge to turn it into a meaningful memory |
chess |
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Memory failures: in-group bia |
Sangrigoli et al (2005)- ps indicated which of two pictures they thought matched a target face that flashed up a second before, did better with faces of own race |
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memory failure: short-term consolidation interruption |
Yarrell & Lynch (1973) college football players tended to lose the few minutes before a head injury |
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Memory failure: state-/mood- dependent retrieval |
Goddon & Baddeley (1975)- ps learned words either on land or underwater .. |
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memory failure: interference |
Underwood & Postman (1960)- ps were given a list of paired words, first word presented later for cued recall, but one group had received a second list w the same cue words, this group did significantly worse on recalling the first list |
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memory failure: misleading info |
Loftus & Palmer (1974)- smashed vs hit |
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memory failure: frontal system damage |
patients with korsakoff’s amnesia have poor LTM & their recall is considerably worse than their recognition, they also sometimes suffer from confabulations |
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welath & happiness: correlational longitudinal study |
myers (2000)- as americans got richer, happiness stayed roughly the same |
americans |
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wealth & happiness: relative wealth |
Boyce et al (2010)- peoples relative-, not absolute-, wealth predicts happiness |
relative wealth
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