Ch. 7 Flashcards

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1
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An internal record or representation of some prior event or experience.

A

Memory

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2
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Outlining each chapter from our book to help you organize data in your long-term memories for easier retrieval . Helps build a cognitive map of information & improves memory.

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Constructive Process
Organization

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3
Q

Details of
experiences
must be
encoded into
our memories,
or they will not
be retrievable,
which is called

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Encoding

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4
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Typing in a computer then it’s saving the data and showing you on its screen

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Encoding, Storage, Retrieval

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5
Q

Is the word written in capital letters?

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Shallow/Structrual

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6
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Does the word rhyme with weight?

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Intermediate/Phonemic

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7
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Would the word fit in a sentence?

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Deep/Semantic

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8
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let’s say you read that phobias are often caused by classical conditioning, and you apply this idea to your own fear of spiders by analyzing how you were conditioned.

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Elaboration

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If you were asked to remember the word juggler, you could readily form an image of someone juggling balls.

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Visual Imagery

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10
Q

Paivio’s
theory that memory is enhanced
by forming both semantic and
visual codes since either can lead
to recall.

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Dual coding Theory

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11
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High motivation to remember
(MTR) at the time of encoding
improves recall later.

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Motivation to remember

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12
Q

at work when you try to remember who won the Super Bowl last year or when you reminisce about your high school days.

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Retrospective memory

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include remembering to bring your umbrella, to walk the dog, to call someone, or to grab the tickets for the big game.

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Prospective memory

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14
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Butter, bread, jam, etc.

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Clustering

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15
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Animals, mammals & birds, Canine, Feline, rodents, dog, cat, rat

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,/Conceptual hierarchy

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16
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How we store memories?

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17
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A flash of lightning and you see an object and you can recall what it looked like

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Iconic Memory

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18
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is a 3 or 4 second sensory/acoustic memory of a sound.

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Ethoic Memory

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19
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is a limited-capacity store that can maintain unrehearsed information for up to about 20 seconds. Leans more on acoustic coding

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Short-Term Memory

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20
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is an unlimited capacity store that can hold information over lengthy periods of time. Leans more on semantic coding

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Long-Term Memory

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21
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memory with conscious recall

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/Declarative/Explicit memory

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22
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bananas are yellow, 12 months in a year, spiders have 8 legs what memory knows this?

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Semantic memory

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23
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Highschool graduation and the birth of your first child what memory uses this?

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Episodic memory

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24
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Nondeclarative/implicit memory

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memory without conscious recall

25
Q

How to drive a car, brush your teeth, ride a bike

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Procedural memory

26
Q

phobias

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Classically conditioned memory

27
Q

Heighted fears after reading a scary novel

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Priming

28
Q

Repeating information over and over to maintain it in short-term memory

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Maintenance Rehearsal

29
Q

The process of linking new information to previously stored material

A

Elaborative Rehearsal

30
Q

Grouping separate pieces of
information into a single unit

A

Chunking

31
Q

Piano practice

A

Long Term Potentiation

32
Q

multiple-choice test

A

Recognition

33
Q

essay test

A

recall

34
Q

What do we use to locate info in our mind?

A

visuospatial sketchpad

35
Q

we are good at remembering mental pictures and acronyms,(LOL) which can help us recall the meanings./PEMDAS

A

Mnemonics

36
Q

Clue or prompt that helps
stimulate recall or retrieval
of a stored piece of
information from long-term
memory

A

Retrieval Cue

37
Q

Details of a birthday party include cake and ice cream, gifts, etc.

A

Schema

38
Q

Just sharing your thought that someone was probably driving drunk can lead another to describe what they saw with this new information attached to it, “yes, they were weaving”.

A

Misinformation effect

39
Q

Remembering things better when they are at the start of a list

A

primacy effect

40
Q

remembering items at the very
end of a list is due to the

A

recency effect

41
Q

People tend to show better
recall for items at the

A

beginning and the end

42
Q

When you are learning new
information, like the names of
your classmates, and you begin
to forget the names of last
semesters classmates.

A

RETROACTIVE INTERFERENCE:

43
Q

When you have previous learned
information interfere with
recalling newly learned
information, such as calling a
new girlfriend by your previous
girlfriends name.

A

PROACTIVE INTERFERENCE

44
Q

temporary inability to remember something you know, accompanied by a feeling that it’s just out of reach. Happens about once a week and increases with age.

A

Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon

45
Q

often facilitate the retrieval of information.
* The value of reinstating the context of an event may account for how hypnosis occasionally stimulates eyewitness recall in legal investigations.
* Hypnotists use context cues.
* Research suggests that hypnosis often increases individuals’ tendency to report incorrect information.

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Context Cues

46
Q

Facts you learned in school gradually fade out of
memory over time

A

Decay theory

47
Q

After sitting through your biology lecture, you forget
what you learned in chemistry class the hour before

A

Interference
theory

48
Q

you cannot remember a traumatic childhood
experience

A

Motivated
forgetting

49
Q

You have difficulty remembering something you
know is stored in memory

A

Retrieval theory

50
Q

-Decay theory
-Interference
theory
-Retrieval theory
-Motivated
forgetting

A

Theories of
Forgetting

51
Q

You recite a phone number or the capitals of U.S.
states or the provinces of Canada

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Recall task

52
Q

You recognize the correct answer in a multiple-
choice question

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Recognition task

53
Q

Recall and Recognition task

A

Measuring
Methods

54
Q

After suffering a blow to the head in a car accident, you
are unable to remember details of the accident itself

A

Retrograde
amnesia

55
Q

Because of a brain disorder, you find it difficult to
retain new information

A

Anterograde
amnesia

56
Q

Retrograde
amnesia and Anterograde
amnesia

A

Types of
Amnesia

57
Q

cramming before a test

A

Massed Practice

58
Q

studying overtime or period of days

A

Distributed (or Spaced) Practice

59
Q

One effective way to distribute
practice is repeated self-testing, often called the testing
effect.

A

Retrieval Practice