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Episodic Memory: Organizing and Remembering

Q: What are two central features of Bartlett's approach?

1) To stress the participant's effort after meaning ; exactly the opposite of Ebbinghaus's explicit attempt to avoid meaning. 2) His postulation of the concept of a schema , a long-term structured representation of knowledge that was used by the rememberer to make sense of new material and subsequently store and recall it.

4 important questions on Episodic Memory: Organizing and Remembering

Transfer-appropriate processing (TAP)

Proposal that retention is best when the mode of encoding and mode of retrieval are the same

Episodic sequence learning

The ability to represent the temporal sequence of occurrences within a larger event

Ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC)

A portion of the prefrontal cortex located along the midline of the brain (i.e. In the middle), lower in the prefrontal cortex, thought to play an instrumental role in the integration of recent episodic experiences with well-consolidated background knowledge and schemas. The vmPFC (also referred to as medial prefrontal cortex in rodents) also plays a role in hastening the consolidation of schematically related episodic memories.

What are two central features of Bartlett's approach?

1) To stress the participant's effort after meaning; exactly the opposite of Ebbinghaus's explicit attempt to avoid meaning.
2) His postulation of the concept of a schema, a long-term structured representation of knowledge that was used by the rememberer to make sense of new material and subsequently store and recall it.