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Ch 7 - Memory Flashcards

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Mental system for receiving, encoding, storing, organizing, altering, and retrieving information.

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What is memory?

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Converting information into a form to be retained in memory.

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What is encoding (in memory)?

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Holding information in memory for later use.

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What is storage (in memory)?

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Recovery of stored information.

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What is retrieval (in memory)?

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Fleeting storage system for sensory impressions.

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What is sensory memory?

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A mental image or visual representation.

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What is iconic memory?

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A brief continuation of sensory activity in the auditory system after a sound is heard.

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What is echoic memory?

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Storage system used to hold small amounts of information in conscious awareness for about a dozen seconds.

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What is short-term memory (STM)?

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Another name for short-term memory, especially as it is used for thinking and problem solving.

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What is working memory?

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Meaningful units of information, such as numbers, letters, words, or phrases.

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What are information bits?

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Process of grouping similar or meaningful information together.

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What is chunking?

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Repeating information over and over to keep it active in short-term memory.

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What is maintenance rehearsal?

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Learning by simple repetition.

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What is rote rehearsal (rote learning)?

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Making memories more meaningful through processing that encodes links between new information and existing memories and knowledge, either at the time of the original encoding or on subsequent retrievals.

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What is elaborative rehearsal (elaborative encoding)?

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Unlimited capacity storage system that can hold information over lengthy periods of time.

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What is long-term memory (LTM)?

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A model of memory that views it as an organized system of linked information.

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What is a network model (of memory)?

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Any information that can prompt or trigger the retrieval of particular memories. They usually enhance memory.

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What is a retrieval cue?

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Process by which memories are reconstructed or expanded by starting with one memory and then following chains of association to other, related memories.

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What is redintegration?

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A recollection that a person does not know exists and is retrieved unconsciously.

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What is implicit memory?

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Facilitating the retrieval of an implicit memory by using cues to activate hidden memories.

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What is priming?

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A recollection that a person is aware of having or is consciously retrieved.

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What is explicit memory?

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A subpart of declarative memory that records impersonal knowledge about the world.

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What is semantic memory?

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A subpart of declarative memory that records personal experiences that are linked with specific times and places.

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What is episodic memory?

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Process by which relatively permanent memories are formed in the brain.

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What is consolidation?

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Part of the limbic system associated with storing memories.

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What is the hippocampus?

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Especially vivid and detailed recollection of an emotional event.

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What is a flashbulb memory?

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Failure to store sufficient information to form a useful memory?

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What is encoding failure?

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The feeling that a memory is available but not quite retrievable.

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What is a tip-of-the-tongue (TOT) state?

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Retrieval of information with a minimum of external cues.

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What is recall?

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When remembering an ordered list, the tendency to make the most errors with middle items.

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What is the serial position effect?

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Ability to correctly identify previously learned information.

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What is recognition?

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Learning again something that was previously learned. Used to measure memory of prior learning.

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What is relearning?

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Failure to access (locate) memories even though they are available (stored in memory).

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What is retrieval failure?

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Inability to form or retrieve memories of events due to an injury or trauma.

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What is amnesia?

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Inability to retrieve memories of events that occurred before an injury or trauma.

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What is retrograde amnesia?

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Inability to form or retrieve memories of events that occur after an injury or trauma.

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What is anterograde amnesia?

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Memory influenced by one’s physical state at the time of learning and at the time of retrieval. Improved memory occurs when the physical states match.

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What is state-dependent learning?

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The tendency for new memories to impair retrieval of older memories, and the reverse.

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What is interference?

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The tendency for new memories to interfere with the retrieval of old memories.

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What is retroactive interference?

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The tendency for old memories to interfere with the retrieval of newer memories.

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What is proactive interference?

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Keeping distressing thoughts and feelings buried in the unconscious.

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What is repression?

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A conscious effort to put something out of mind or to keep it from awareness.

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What is suppression?

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Proposition that the strength of memories weakens over time, making them harder to retrieve.

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What is decay theory?

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Physical changes in neurons or brain activity that take place when memories are stored.

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What are memory traces?

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Proposition that memory traces weaken when memories are not periodically used or retrieved.

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What is the Law of Disuse (in memory)?

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A memory that can seem accurate but is not.

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What is a false memory?

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Occurs when the origins of a memory are misremembered.

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What is source confusion (in memory)?

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Use of various cues and strategies to improve the memory of eyewitnesses.

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What is a cognitive interview?

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A practice schedule that alternates study periods with brief rests.

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What is spaced practice?

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A practice schedule in which studying continues for long periods, without interruption.

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What is massed practice?

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Mental pictures or visual depictions used in memory and thinking.

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What are mental images?

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A strategy for enhancing memory.

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What is a mnemonic device?

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As an aid to memory, using a familiar word or image to link two terms.

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What is the keyword method?

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The idea that people process words and mental images together better than they do words alone.

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What is the multimedia principle?

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