Chapter 6- Memory Flashcards
What are flashbulb memories?
Detailed recollections of when and where we heard about shocking events.
Proactive and retroactive interference
Pro- earlier learning impairs memory for info acquired later.
Retro- later learning impairs memory for info acquired earlier.
Serial position effect
The tendency to recall info that is presented first and last (like a list) better than presented in the middle.
What is sensory memory?
Holds sensory information for a few seconds or less.
What is short-term memory?
Holds non sensory info for more than a few seconds but less than a minute.
What is long-term memory?
Holds info for hours, days, weeks, or years.
What is anterograde amnesia?
The inability to transfer new info from the short-term store into the long-term store.
What is retrograde amnesia?
The inability to retrieve info that was acquired before a particular date, usually the date of an injury or operation
What is US, CS, UR, and CR?
Unconditioned Stimulus
Conditioned Stimulus
Unconditioned Response
Conditioned Response
What is classical conditioning?
When a neutral stimulus produces a response after being paired with a stimulus that naturally produces a response.
What is operant conditioning?
A type of learning in which the consequences of an organism’s behavior determine whether it will be repeated in the future.
What’s an example of operant conditioning?
Skinner box
What’s an example of classical conditioning?
Pavlov’s experiment
Explain Pavlov’s demonstration of classical conditioning and the key elements in this form of learning
Involved cradling dogs in a harness to administer the foods and to measure the salivary response.
A neutral stimulus is paired with an unconditioned stimulus. After several trials associating the two, the conditioned stimulus alone can produce a conditioned response.
What is the classical conditioning phenomena of acquisition?
The phase when the CS and the US are presented together.
