Chapter 6: Memory

   * Organization in long-term memory:

Related terms are stored in networks -> may lead to false memories due to automatic spreading activation

           - Examplars: Best representatives of a category
           - Retrieval inhibition: Retrieving a piece of information inhibits retrieval of related information

Schemas: general frameworks, guiding principles based on previous experience
           -> can be good, as they allow us to make assumptions in a given situation
           -> can be bad as they can bias our encoding and retrieval of events

   * Forgetting:

Anterograde amnesia: cannot form new long-term memories
Retrograde amnesia: cannot remember anything prior to brain damage.
Procedural memories often remain intact (but not always).

=> Different brain structures are involved in encoding, storage, and retrieval of information.