Ch.9 Part 2

Question 0

Retention curve.
Relearning faster if you rehearse it.
Rehearsal time increases, relearning time decreases.

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Ebbinghaus

Question 1

Relearning

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A memory measure that assesses the amount of time saved when learning material for a second time.

Question 2

The activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory.

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Priming

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Context effects

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Putting yourself back in the context where you experienced something can prime your memory retrieval.

Question 4

That eerie sense that “I’ve experienced this before.” Cues from the current situation may subconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience.

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Deja vu

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Mood-congruent memory

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The tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with ones current good or bad mood.

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Forward acting. The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information.
Ex. Not remembering your new password, only your old password.

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Proactive interference

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Retroactive interference

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Backward acting. The disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information.
Ex. Not remembering your old address after living in your new new house for over a year.

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Proactive
Old blocks new
Retroactive
New blocks old

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PORN

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Repression

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In psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories.

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A psychologist, known specifically for her work with memory.

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Elizabeth loftus

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Source amnesia

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

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Incorporating misleading information into your memory of an event.

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Misinformation effect

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Iconic memory

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Momentary sensory memory of visual stimuli. Photo or picture lasting 1-2 seconds

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An auditory memory, usually lasting between 3-4 seconds.

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Echoic memory

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George miller

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Rule of 7. Short term memory. Our memory can take about 7 things, if you don’t rehearse it then you won’t get past 7.

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

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Long term potentiation (LTP)

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Amnesia

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Loss of memory

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Retention independent of conscious recollection

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Implicit memory

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Explicit memory

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Memory of facts and experiences that one can know and consciously know and declare.

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Has to do with explicit memory in the brain.

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Hippocampus

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Cerebellum

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Little brain

Processing sensory imput. Coordinating movement and balance.

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Measure of memory in which the person only need identify items previously learned. Like on a multiple choice test.

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Recognition

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Recall

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Measure of memory in which the person must retrieve info learned earlier, as in the fill in the blank.

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Memory measure that assesses the amount of time saved when learning material fora second time.

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Relearning

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Freud

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Repression
Protect us from painful, embarrassing, traumatic experiences. Memories are pushed into our subconscious. Won’t come back until it was cued.

Question 26

Her mother passed away, and she drowned. She was told she was there when her mom drowned, and she was never there, but the memory was so vivid. SOURCE AMNESIA.

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Loftus

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Misinformation effect

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Incorporating misleading info into ones memory of an event.

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Attributing to the Wrong source of an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined.
You think you’re there, in reality you never were.

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Source amnesia

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Encoding failure

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Fail to encode information Into your memory

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Retrieval failure

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Fail to retrieve information from your memory.

Question 31

Schema

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Is a concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.
Men are more aggressive than women. In FRQ.