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AP Psych Unit 6 Flashcards

1
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What is the capacity for long-term memory?

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Limitless

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2
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Part of the brain that lays down new explicit memories (names or events)

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Hippocampus

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Type of memories the cerebellum form

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Implicit memory

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4
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What happens to memories while we sleep?

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Memories processed later for retrieval

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5
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Memories formed by the basal ganglia

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Procedural memory for skills

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6
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A clear memory of an emotionally significant event or moment

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Flashbulb memory

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What part of the brain is involved in emotional memories, like flashbulb memories?

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Hippocampus

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An increase in a cell’s firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation. Believed to be the neural basis for learning and memory

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Long-term potentiation (LTP)

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Three measures of retention

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Recall, recognition, relearning

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Retrieving info that isn’t currently in your conscious awareness but was learned at an earlier time (ex. Fill in the blank)

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Recall

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Identifying items previously learned (ex. Multichoice question)

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Recognition

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12
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Learning something a second time faster than when the material was originally used. (ex. Studying for exam)

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Relearning

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13
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Showed the more frequently you practice something, the less practice you’ll need to relearn it; forgetting initially is rapid, but levels off as time goes on

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Ebbinghaus’ Learning Experiments

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14
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Activation, often unconsciously, of associations in memory

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Priming

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15
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What we learn in one state may be easier to remember when we are again in that state

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State-dependent memory

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16
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Tendency to recall experiences that are consistent w/ one’s good or bad moods (when in bad mood we remember bad events easier)

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Mood-congruent memory

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17
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People remembering things at the beginning of a list (primacy) or at the end of a list (regency) rather than the middle

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Serial position effect

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18
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2 examples of retrieval cues

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Mood and surroundings

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19
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Two parts of the brain that are most involved in explicit memory

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Hippocampus and frontal lobe

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20
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Inability to form new memories

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Anterograde amnesia

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21
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Inability to retrieve info from one’s past (monster dude)

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Retrograde amnesia

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22
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Disruptive effect for prior learning on the recall of new info (not knowing your new phone # b/c you keep remembering old one)

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Proactive interference

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23
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In psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes from conscious anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories (Freud 😒)

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Repression

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24
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A process in which stored memories, when retrieved, are potentially altered before being stored again

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Reconsolidation

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25
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Incorporating misleading information into one’s memory of an event (Elizabeth Loftus)

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Misinformation effect

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26
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Attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined

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Source amnesia

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27
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Eerie sense that “I’ve experienced this before”, cues from current situation may unconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier even

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Deja vu

28
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What controversy exists regarding repressed or constructed memories of abuse? (Chilton)

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Therapist “recovered” memories

29
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The persistence of learning over time through the encoding, storage, and retrieval of information

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Memory

30
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The processing of information into the memory system

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Encoding

31
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The process of retaining encoded information overtime

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Storage

32
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The process of getting info out of memory storage

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Retrieval

33
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Processing many aspects of a problem simultaneously

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Parallel processing

34
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Immediate, very brief recording of sensory info in the memory system

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Sensory memory

35
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Activated memory that holds a few items briefly, such as the seven digits of a phone number while dialing, before info is stored or forgotten

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Short-term memory

36
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The relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system. Includes knowledge, skills, and experiences

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Long-term memory

37
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Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know and ‘declare’

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Explicit memory

38
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Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort

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Effortful processing

39
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Unconscious encoding of incidental info, such as space, time, and freq. as well as well-learned info, such as word meanings

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Automatic processing

40
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the information that we do not store purposely and is unintentionally memorized

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Implicit memory

41
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Momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli; a photographic or picture-image memory lasting no more than a few tenths of a second (OTTFFSSENT)

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Iconic memory

42
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A momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli

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Echoic memory

43
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Organizing items into familiar, manageable units; often occurs automatically

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Chunking

44
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Memory aids, especially techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices

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Mnemonics

45
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The tendency for distributed study or practice to yield better long-term retention than is achieved through massed study or practice

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Spacing effect

46
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Enhanced memory after retrieving, rather than simply rereading information

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Testing effect

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48
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Memory of a specific event (episode; vivid memory)

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Episodic memory

49
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Skill memory (ex. typing)

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Procedural memory

50
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General knowledge, facts

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General (semantic) memory

51
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Elaborative rehearsal (meaning and memory demo)

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Maintenance Rehearsal

52
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Improved recall of specific events when subject is in place where memory was formed (ex. Abigail cabin)

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Context-dependent memory

53
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state in which one cannot quite recall a familiar word but can recall words of similar form and meaning (ex. the state capitals)

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Tip of Tongue (TOT) phenomenon

54
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Remembering an event better when you’re in the same state that you were during the episode (Graham during Chilton’s sessions)

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State-dependent memory

55
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Mental activities involved in acquiring, retaining and using knowledge

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Cognition

56
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Manipulation of mental representations to draw inferences and conclusions

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Thinking

57
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Mental category we form to group objects, events or situations that share common characteristics

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Concept

58
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Natural Concept

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Formed by everyday experiences and don’t have strict boundaries (common sense)

59
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Rigid rules or features that define a particular concept. (Ex. Formal definitions for solids, liquids and gases)

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Formal Concept

60
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Mental representation of an object or event not physically present

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Mental image

61
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A model or mental image, a typical best example of a particular thing

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Prototype

62
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Narrowing problem solutions to the single best solution- focused on finding a particular answer to the problem

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Convergent thinking

63
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Thinking creatively to generate as many possible answers to the problem that you can (Brainstorming)

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Divergent Thinking

64
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Ability to create new and useful ideas

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Creativity

65
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Expertise, imaginative thinking skills, venturesome personality, intrinsic motivation, creative environment

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5 Components of thinking

66
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Memory that allows for cognitive processes and contains general knowledge of information

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Semantic memory

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