psych 5,7,2,1

memory that is too good

retention of information over time

procedures that encourage patients to to recall memories that may or may not have happened

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• interference: memories getting in the way of other memories.
• retroactive interference occurs when learning something new tampers with something we already know.
• proactive interfernece occurs when eariler learning gets in the way of newer learning

decay the longer we wait, the less we will remember

5-9

organizing information into categories so we can remember them better in our short term memory

sensory memory- while watching tv. Last for a second and gone forever. prepares the short term memory

short temrm meomory- also very brief 20 seconds

longterm memory ststained from minutes to years retention of information is stored ie.facts, experiences

auditory sensory memory system

the tendency to remember items at the end of a list

the tendency to recall information at the beginnin of a series

the inhabiltity to recall new memories from our experiences

hippocampus -explicit- implicit

newer memories ending with older memories

changes the occur in a 24 hour span + controls feelings of drowsiness

triggers feelings of sleepiness and increases after dark

• brain activity goes down by 50%
• as we get deeper into sleep we experience scattered imagery in dreamlike images

• k complexes only appear during sleep
• brain, heart, body tempurature goes down
• 65% of sleep is spent in this state

delta waves are higher

• remm sleep (rapid eye movememnt)
• the brain is active while the body is inactive.
• most vivid dreaming occurs
• emotional and illogical dreams

knowing that your dreaming while your dreaming associated with anxiety dreams

sudden jerks during sleep