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Chapter 3: Experimental: Memory (7-9%) Flashcards

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Stages of Memory

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Sensory
Short-Term
Long-Term

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Studying Memory

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Involves understanding how things are remembered and why things are forgotten.

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Sensory Memory

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  • Last only for seconds

- Forms the connection b/t perception and memory

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Iconic Memory

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is the sensory memory for vision

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George Sperling

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Found that people could see more than they can remember

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Ulric Neisser: Icon

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For brief visual memory and found that an icon last for about one second.

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Backward Masking

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When subjects are exposed to a bright flash of light or a new pattern b/f the iconic image fades, the image will be erased. (More successful if it similar to the original stimulus)(works for auditory system as well)

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Echoic Memory

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is the sensory memory for auditory sensations

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Short-Term Memory (STM)

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Teporary; lasts for seconds or minutes

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Working Memory

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is the temporary memory that is needed to perform the task that someone is working on at that moment

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George Miller

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Found that short-term memory has the capacity of about seven items (+ or - two items)

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Chunking (grouping items)

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can increase the capacity of STM

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Rehearsal

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(Repeating or practicing) is the key to keeping items in the STM and to transferring items to the long-term memory (LTM)

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Primary (maintence) Rehearsal:

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Involves repeating material in order to hold it in STM

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Secondary (elaborative) Rehearsal

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Involves organizing and understanding material in order to transfer it to LTM

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Interference

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How other information or distractions cause one to forget new items that were presented

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Proactive Interference

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Disrupting information that was learned before the new items were presented
-This is problematic for recall and thus causes proactive inhibition

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Retroactive Interference

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Disrupting information that was learned after the new items were presented.
-This is problematic for recall and thus causes retroactive inhibition

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Long-Term Memory (LTM)

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  • Capable of permanent retention
  • Most items are learned semantically, for meaning
  • LTM retention is measured by recognition, recall and savings
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Recognition

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Recognize things learned in the past

Ex. M. choice test

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Recall

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Generate information

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Cused Recall

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remembering w/ cues

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Free Recall

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Remembering w/o cues

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Savings

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Measures how much information about a subject remains in LTM by assessing how long it takes to learn something the second time as opposed to the first time.

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Encoding Specificity Principle

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Material is more likely to be remembered if it is retrieved in the same context in which it was stored.

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Episodic Memory

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Consists of details, events, and discrete knowledge

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Semantic Memory

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Consists of general knowledge of the world.

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Procedural Memory

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is know how to do something.

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Declarative Memory

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is knowing a fact.

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Explicit Memory

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Is knowing something and being consciously aware of knowing it, such as knowing a fact.

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Implicit Memory

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Is know something without being aware of knowing it.

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Herman Ebbinghaus

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First to study memory systematically.

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Forgetting Cuve

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Depicts a sharp drop in savings immediately after learning.

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Frederick Bartlett

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Found that memory is reconstructive rather rote.

-People are more likely to remember the ideas or semantics of a story rather than the details or grammar of the story.

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Allan Paivo: Dual Code hypothesis

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Items will be better remembered if they are encoded both visually (with icons / imagery) and semantically (with understanding).

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Fergus Craik & Robert Lockhart: Depth of Processing

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Different levels of processing exist from the most superficial phonological (pronunciation) level to the deep semantic (meaning level). The deeper an item is processed, the easier it is to learn & recall.

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Paired Associated Learning

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One Item is learned w/ and than cues the recall of another. Also used when learning foreign languages. (hombre = man)

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Elizabeth Loftus

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Found that memory of traumatic events is altered by the event itself and by the way that question about the event are phrased

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Karl Lashley

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Found that memories are stored diffusely in the brain.

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Donald Hebb: Synapses & Neural Pathways

E.R Kandel

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Memory Tree

Studying the sea slug Aplysia

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Brenda Milner

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Patient HM: given a lesion of the hippocampus to treat epilepsy.
Remembered things before the surgery, (STM is intact) could not store anything new (LTM)

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Serial Learning

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A list that is learn and recalled in order (serial recall)

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Primacy & Recency Effects

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Feedback on the correct responses in the correct order is given after the entire list is recalled

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Serial Position Curve

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Shows the savings effect

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Serial Anticipation Learning

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Recalling one item at a time

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Free- Recall Learning

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A list of items are learning and recalled in any order w/ no cues

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Factors for Learning easier

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Acoustic dissimilarity
Semantic dissimilarity
Brevity ( length of the term & length of list of term to be remebered)
Familiarity
Concreteness
Meaning
Importance to the subject
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Decay Theory (Trace Theory)

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Posits that memories fade w/ time (other activities are known to interfere w/ retrieval)

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Interference Theory

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Competing information blocks retreival

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Mnemonics

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Memory cues that help learning and recall. (Ex. OCEAN: Big five factors of personality.
Openess
Consientiousness
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism
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Generation Recognition Model

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Suggest that anything one might recall should easily be recognized

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Tip-of-the-Tongue Phenomenon

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Being on the verge of retrieval but unsuccessful in doing so.

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State- Depender Memory

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Retrieval is more successful if it occurs in the same emotional state or physical state in which encoding occured

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Clustering

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Tendency to group together similar items in memories whether they are learned together or not.

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Order of Items on a List

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Can more quickly state the order of two items that are far apart on the list than two items that are closer together

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Incidental Learning

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Presenting items to someone that are not suppose try to memorized and than testing for learning

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Eidetic Imagery

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Photographic memory

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Flashbulb Memory

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Recollections that seen to be burned into the brain

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Tachiscope

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Instrument of ten used in cognitive or memory experiements. It presents visual material to subjects for a faction of a second

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Zeigarnik Effect

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The tendency to recall uncompleted tasks better than completed ones

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