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Mnemonics

Acronyms, acrostics & narrative chaining is covered in this podcast along with an overview of how mnemonics enhance memory.

Sensitivity of measures of retention

Recall vs Recognition vs Recall are covered in this podcast - all 3 are explained along with examples (including the savings score formula)

Retrieval failure - theory of forgetting

A common experience of retrieval failure is the tip-of-the tongue phenomena. An explanation of the causes of R.F or TOT is covered in this podcast.

Proactive and Retroactive Inteference

Pro meaning forward, retro meaning backwards - this podcast examines causes of inteference as well as an explanation of both proactive and retroactive inteference.

Repression and Suppression - VCE Psych

Motivated forgetting is covered in this podcast - which distinguishes between Suppression & Repression and highlights evidence of both of these concepts.

Decay theory of forgetting

Memories fade due to lack of revisitation (which is necessary to fortify the memory)

Forgetting curve

The Forgetting curve shows the rate and amount of forgetting that occurs over time.

Semantic Network Theory

Information in LTM is organised in a hiearchical structure of overlapping concepts (nodes) that are interconnected via meaningful links. This podcast covers the key points relating to S.N.T

Serial Position Effect - VCE Psych

The Primacy & Recency effect are both explained in this podcast with emphasis on the the respective use of STM & LTM.

Craik and Lockhart: levels of processing - VCE Psych

Structural, phonemic & semantic enconding are covered in this podcast - examples of each are covered along with an explanation of the level of processing (shallow, intermediate & deep).

Working mem: Episodic buffer, V-S sketchpad & Phonological loop - VCE Psych

The functionality of the episodic buffer, visuo-spatial sketchpad & episodic buffer is covered in this podcast.

Working memory: central executive - VCE Psychology

The role of the central executive is addressed in this podcast, a future podcast will examine the functionality of the slave systems of the Baddeley & Hitch model of Working Memory.

Enhancing memory - VCE Psych

Chunking, maintenance & elaborative rehearsal are all covered in this podcast. Chunking icnreases the capacity of STM. Maintenance rehearsal enhances the duration of STM although if you keep it in STM long enough, eventually it will be encoded and stored in LTM. Elaborative transfer aids the enconding of material into LTM.

Types of LTM

Implict vs. Explict memories are covered in this podcast - with specific reference to procedural vs. declarative (episodic & semantic) memories.

iconic and echoic memory

this podcast provides an outline of the functionality of our visual and auditory sensory memory registers.

Sensory memory

STM

The middle stage of the Atkinson-Schiffrin multi store model of memory is covered in this podcast.

Amnesia

Amnesia is defined as well as a description of both retrograde and anterograde amnesia is covered in this podcast: retro = backwards, antero = forwards in this case.

Age related memory decline - VCE Psychology

This podcast addresses - causes for age related memory decline as well as the effects on different aspects of memory - such as retention, STM, LTM, etc.

Hippocampus - role in memory formation

This podcast covers the role of the Hippocampus in the formation of declarative memories and spatial learning

Amygdala - role in memory

This brief podcast describes the function of the amygdala in memory formation and fear conditioning

Split brain experiments

A description of how a patient can identify objects flashed to either the left or right visual field is covered in this podcast along with an explanation of each scenario as per Sperry & Gazzaniga's research.

Spatial neglect

This brief podcast covers symptoms and cause of this rare condition

Broca's area

This is the 2nd podcast on the speech areas of the brain, which has been produced with the intention of providing a clear distinction of the functionality of Broca's area in comparison to Wernicke's area.

Wernicke's aphasia

Left vs Right Cerebral Hemispheres

The major function of the left & right hemi's are covered in this podcast

Primary motor and somatosensory cortex

This podcast covers similarities and differences between the somatosensory and motor cortexes

Parietal lobe

Temporal lobe

This is the 4th podcasts of the 4 lobes of the cerebral cortex - which describes the primary cortex (auditory in this case) as well as functions of the association areas and symptoms of damage to the lobe.

Frontal lobe

This podcast focuses on the functionality of the prefrontal cortex