Review: Sleep & Dreams - EEG changes during sleep - synchronized/ desynchronized activity - paradoxical features of

1. Review: Sleep & Dreams - EEG changes during sleep - synchronized/ desynchronized activity - paradoxical features of REM sleep - brain areas: SCN, pons - function of sleep: 2 theories - function of dreams/ REM sleep- evidence? - VIDEO: - 1. Word association test during REM - 2. Learning task with REM deprivation Gray, Psychology, 4e

2. CHAPTER 9 Memory and Consciousness Gray, Psychology, 4e

3. Overview: An Information-Processing Model of the Mind • Sensory Memory • Working Memory • Long-Term Memory • Control Processes Gray, Psychology, 4e

4. An Information-Processing Model of the Mind What moves information from one store to other? Gray, Psychology, 4e

5. Answer: Control Processes - Attention, Encoding, Retrieval Gray, Psychology, 4e

6. Sensory Memory and Attention: The Portal to Consciousness • Sensory Memory as a Store • Selective Nature of Attention • Unconscious, Automatic Processing of Input Gray, Psychology, 4e

7. Visual Sensory memory: The Icon Sperling (1960)- “reading” letters up to 1/3 sec after display Eriksen & Collins (1967)- superimpose 2 icons Conclusion: Iconic memory lasts about 1/3 of second Gray, Psychology, 4e

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9. Rock & Guttman (1981) Task: attend to red shape Test: recognition for red and green shapes Result: performed at chance level for recognition of unattended shapes, but did notice unusual characteristics Gray, Psychology, 4e

10. Evidence for our ability to screen out irrelevant info!! Gray, Psychology, 4e

11. Priming: Evidence that sensory input can influence behavior/ thought without itself being conscious Gray, Psychology, 4e

12. Automatic, Obligatory Processing: Stroop Effect Gray, Psychology, 4e

13. Working Memory: The Active, Conscious Mind • Verbal : Phonological Loop • Visual: Visuospatial Sketch Pad • Importance of Prefrontal Lobes in Working Memory Gray, Psychology, 4e

14. The visuospatial sketch pad Kosslyn (1993) Task: In your memory, focus on back of boat Q: Was there a: a) motor b) window c) anchor? Answers took longer for c) than for b) than for a) Gray, Psychology, 4e

15. Encoding Information into Long-Term Memory • Elaboration • Organization • Visualization Gray, Psychology, 4e

16. Craig & Tulving (1975): Evidence for value of elaboration Gray, Psychology, 4e

17. Value of organization for long term memory DEMO: Task: remember as many words as you can Gray, Psychology, 4e

18. mouse hot net trap milk tiger cookie cat wheat moth cage field bear tan cheese cool butterfly sun cow yellow bread germ Gray, Psychology, 4e

19. Multiple Memory Systems: Beyond the Modal Model • Distinctions Among Explicit and Implicit Memory Systems • Neuropsychological Evidence for Separate Memory Systems Gray, Psychology, 4e

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22. Temporal lobe amnesia: Case of H.M. Evidence for two types of memory Gray, Psychology, 4e

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24. Retrieving Information from Long-Term Memory • The Role of Time • Interference as a Cause of Forgetting • Mental Associations and Memory Retrieval Cues • Memory Construction as a Source of Distortion Gray, Psychology, 4e

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