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C7: Memory Flashcards

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Amnesia

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Inability to retrieve vast quantities of information from memory; result of brain injury or psychological trauma

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Retrograde Amnesia

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losing past memories; most common portrayal in media

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Anterograde Amnesia

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lose the ability to form new memories; more common

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Priming

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The facilitation of a response to a stimulus based on recent experience with that stimulus or related stimulus

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Implicit Memory

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Unconscious/automatic memory; (procedural, priming, classical conditioning, non-associative learning)

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Explicit Memory

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Memory that is consciously retrieved; (Episodic, Semantic)

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Procedural Memory

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skills and habits; resistant to decay (riding a bike)

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Episodic Memory

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Memory of past experiences that are identifiable by time and place (episodes)

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Semantic Memory

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Knowledge of concepts, categories, and facts independent of personal experience (don’t know when you learned it, Jell-O)

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Brain Activation During Perception and Remembering

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Activation in same regions

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Encoding

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the process of which the perception of a stimulus or event gets transformed into a memory

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Dual-coding Hypothesis

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Information that can be coded verbally and visually will be remembered more easily

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Levels of Processing Model

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deeply encoded items with more meaning are better remembered

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Maintenance Rehearsal

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simply repeating the item over and over

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Elaborative Rehearsal

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encodes information in more meaningful way; linking it to existing knowledge (semantic)

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Schemas

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Cognitive structures in semantic memory that help us link information to existing knowledge

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Chunking

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The process of breaking down information into meaningful units

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Method of Loci

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associating items with physical locations to remember them

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Sensory Memory

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a temporary memory system that stores sensory information, close to it’s original form

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Iconic memory

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ultra short term visual memory

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Echoic Memory

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ultra short term auditory memory

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Working Memory

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limited capacity cognitive system that stores and manipulates information for current use (what we are consciously focusing on) - disappears unless you actively prevent it from doing so

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Memory Span

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capacity of working memory - 7 items plus or minus two
increase w/ development
decreases w/ age

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Long Term Memory

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storage of information lasting minutes or lifetimes, capacity is limitless

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Serial position Effect

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The finding that the ability to recall items from a list depends on the order, easier to remember early or late in list

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Primacy Effect

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better memorize beginning of the list - encoded to long term memeory

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Recency Effect

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better memorizing the end of the list - still in working memory

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Consolidation

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Gradual process of memory storage in the brain

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Donald Hebb - Hebbian Rule

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Alterations in synaptic connection “cells that fire together wire together”

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Long-term Potentiation (LTP)

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strengthening of a synaptic connection, making the postsynaptic neurons more easily activated by presynaptic neurons

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Doogie Mice

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The finding that the NMDA receptor is involved in LTP through the modification in mice

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Why is slow consolidation beneficial?

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allows for important memories to persist while others forgotten

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How does emotional reaction play in consolidation?

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McGaugh - when events elicits autonomic arousal, the amygdala influences consolidation in the hippocampus and basal ganglia

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Flashbulb Memories

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Brown and Kulik - vivid memories of the circumstances in which a person first learn of a surprising and consequential or emotionally arousing event

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Reconsolidation

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re-storage of memory after retrieval, (functions: memory update and strenghening)

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Retrieval Cue

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Stimulus that promotes memory recall

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Encoding Specificity Principle

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Idea that any stimulus that is encoded along with an experience can later trigger a memory of that experience (what you ate while on your first date)

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Context-dependent memory

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the recall of a situation is similar to encoding situation

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State-dependent memory

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when person’s internal state enhances recall and matches the encoding state

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Prospective Memory

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involves remembering to do something at a future time

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Retrieval-induced forgetting

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Impairment of the ability to recall an item in the future after retrieving a related item from long-term memory

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Savings

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difference between original learning and relearning

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Proactive Interference

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when old information inhibits the ability to remember new information

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Retroactive interference

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when new information inhibits the ability to remember old information

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Blocking

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The temporary inability to remember something, due to interference with similar memories

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Absentmindedness

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inattentive or shallow coding of memories due to failing to pay attention

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persistence

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continual reoccurment of unwanted memories

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Memory Bias

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the changing of memories over time so they become consistent with current beliefs, knowledge, or attitudes

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Source Misattribution

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people misremember the time, place, person, or circumstance involved in memory

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Source Amnesia

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people have a memory for an event but cannot remember where they encountered the information

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Cryptomnesia

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people think they have come up with a new idea, instead retrieved an older idea

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Suggestibility

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developing biased memories when provided with misleading information

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False Memories

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Confusing a mental image with a real memory

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Repressed Memories

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Critiques argue that they are possibly just false memories

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Where is memory stored?

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Cortex

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Where are memories consolidated?

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Hippocampus

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Patient H.M

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Medical Temporal Lobectomy, loss of the ability to encode new long-term memories but persevered STM

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Mnemonics

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learning aids or strategy to improve memory that links incoming information to familiar locations

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