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Study Guide 11 - Memory Flashcards

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Flashbulb Memory

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  • a vivid and lasting image that is associated with an emotional event
  • ex) what were you doing on 9/11
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Eidetic Memory

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-photographic memory

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Acoustic vs. Semantic Encoding

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  • Acoustic: encoding of sound

- Semantic: encoding of meaning (BEST WAY TO REMEMBER)

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Sensory Memory

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-immediate, initial recording of sensory info in the memory system

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Short Term Memory

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-Memory that holds about 5-9 items for about 30 seconds while they are being processed for storage in long term memory

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Iconic Memory

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  • momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli

- picture image Memory that lasts for a very short amount of time

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Chunking

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-technique of organizing material into familiar, meaningful units

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Long Term Memory

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  • relatively permanent and unlimited capacity storehouse

- explicit and implicit

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Working Memory

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  • temporary storage of information that is being actively processed (Rehearsal)
  • without rehearsal short term memories are difficult to remember
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Millers Magic 7

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-about 7 unrelated items can be stored in short term memory

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Visual Sketchpad and Phonological Loop

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-working memory has three interacting parts
VS: holds visual and spatial info
-PL: holds verbal info

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Deep VS. Shallow Processing

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  • deep = forming associations and attaching meaning

- shallow = encoding surface level info such as structure

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Selective attention

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-focusing on 1 specific thing

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Automatic vs. effortful processing

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  • automatic = encoding without effort

- effortful = requires attention and effort

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Elaborative Rehearsal

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-connecting new information to something you already know

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Maintenance Rehearsal

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-extending retention of information in short term memory by repetition

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Spacing Effect

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  • distributing Rehearsal leads to better memory
  • distributed practice = spaced out Learning periods
  • massed practice = cramming
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Mnemonics

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  • use vivid imagery in aiding memory
  • more likely to remember words with vivid images
  • peg word: rhyming
  • method of loci: remembering something with something else you know well
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Implicit Memory

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-Memory of skills that can be retrieved without conscious awareness

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Procedural Memory

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  • Memory of highly practiced skills

- muscle memory: making a motor task a memory through repetition so that it can be performed without conscious effort

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Explicit Memory

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-Memory of facts and events that can be consciously retrieved

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Semantic vs. Episodic Memory

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  • semantic: general knowledge about the world

- episodic: knowledge about specific things in ones own life

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Encoding, storage, retrieval

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  • encoding: getting info into our brains
  • storage: retaining info
  • retrieval: accessing the info later
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Echoic Memory

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  • sensory Memory

- a brief auditory Memory

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Retrieval Cues
-associations are like anchors that help to retrieve memories
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Encoding Specificity
- need a stimulus to help trigger a memory | - ex) going to a room and forgetting what you meant to get
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State Dependent Memory
-we recall info better when we are in the same state of mind as when we encoded it
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Mood Congruent Memory
-recall experiences that are consistent with our current memory
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Recall vs. recognition
- recall: remembering info you learned earlier | - recognition: identifying something u learned earlier
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Serial Position Effect
- primacy: tendency to remember things heard 1st | - recency: tendency to remember things heard last
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TOT
-partial recall
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Priming
-to retrieve a Memory from a web of associations first you have to activate one of the strands leading to it
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Déjà Vu
-Cues from current situation may trigger retrieval of an earlier, similar experience
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Infantile Amnesia
-no conscious memory of our early childhood
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Hippocampus
- Learning and forming new memories | - processes and stores (for a little bit) EXPLICIT MEMORIES
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Cerebellum
-classical conditioning and IMPLICIT MEMORIES
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Amygdala
-helps form emotional memories such as flashbulb memories
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Long Term Potentiation
- neural connections are strengthened - increased sensitivity for neurotransmitters - neural basis for learning and remembering
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Change Blindness
- a type of inattentional blindness - when you focus on 1 thing so you miss another stimulus change - ex) asking for directions video
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Top down vs. Bottom up processing
- seeing the big picture first | - seeing the parts and then the big picture
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Prospective Memory
-the ability to remember to do something in the future
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Memory Construction and Reconstruction
- our memory is not precise, we recreate them | - info. acquired after an event alters memory of event
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Misinformation Effect
-unconsciously incorporating misleading info into our memory of an event
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Source Amnesia
- at the heart of many false memories - attributing something to the wrong source - ex) dream about an event and later be unsure if it actually happened
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Repression
- pushing down a difficult memory - Freud - debated but the most common response to a traumatic event is vivid, haunting memories rather than repression
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Proactive vs. Retroactive Interference
- proactive: prior learning disrupts recall of new info | - retroactive: new learning disrupts recall of old info
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Anterograde vs. Retrograde Amnesia
- anterograde: can recall past but could not form new memories - retrograde: cannot recall past info/memories
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Encoding Failure
- we cannot remember what we don't encode/notice - without effort many potential memories never form - ex) pennies
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Alzheimer's Disease
- a type of dementia | - progressive disease that causes problems with memory, thinking and behavior
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Ebbinghaus Curve of Forgetting
-initially we forget things quickly and then it levels out
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Korsakoff's Syndrome
- mental illness - typically result of alcoholism - characterized by disorientation and a tendency to invent explanations to cover a loss of memory
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Elizabeth Loftus
- studies show that eyewitnesses reconstruct their memories after an event - experiment with film of a traffic accident and different verbs to describe accident
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Eric Kandel and the Aplysia Studies
- used sea slugs to determine the biochemical basis of learning and memory - determined many of the chemical pathways that mediate memory formation - memory storage relies on modifications in the synaptic connections between neurons
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Memory Trace
- a presumed encoding in brain tissue that provides a physical basis for memory - a hypothetical structural alteration in brain cells
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Von Restorff Novelty Effect
-if something stands out on a list it is more likely to be remembered
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