General Psychology 2 Memory

The Peterson task is a short-term memory task that measures the retention of a small amount of material after a long delay filled with some task that inhibits rehearsal.

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The concept of memory bump means that older individuals remember their childhood memories better.

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Psychogenic amnesia includes situation-specific amnesia, dissociative identity disorder, retrograde and anterograde amnesia.

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Confabulation refers to a disturbance of the executive system and is caused by damage to the temporal lobe.

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The hierarchical network model better explains experimental results related to semantic memory than the spreading activation theory.

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A working memory task is when a small amount of information needs to be held in mind and recalled immediately or after a few minutes.

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Define the concepts of autobiographical and episodic memory!

Draw and explain the Baddeley working memory model!

What are the limitations of schema theories?