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Chapter 6: Memory Flashcards

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memory

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mental processes that allow you to retain and retrieve information over time

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Sensory Memory

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momentarily preserves extremely accurate images of sensory information

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encoding

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converting info to a form that can be used later

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Storing

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retaining info over time retrieving info for use

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Maintenance Rehearsal

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verbal or mental repetition of info in order to encode the info

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Working Memory

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information retrieved from LTM for temporary use

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Chunking

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Creating meaningful units of info made up of smaller units

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LTM

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storage of info over an extended period of time; NLBC

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Elaborative Rehearsal

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association of new information with stored knowledge

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Explicit (declarative) memory

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conscious recollection of an event or info

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Semantic Memory (EM)

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memories of general knowledg, facts, names

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Episodic Memory (EM)

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memories of personally experienced events

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Flashbulb Memories (EM-EM)

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vivid recollections surrounding emotional events

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Implicit (non declarative) Memory

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knowledge that affects behavior but not consciously recollected

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Procedural Memory (IM)

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memories of different skills and actions

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Schemas

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“folders”; clusters of information that interpret and filter incoming information

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Clustering

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organizing terms into related groups

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Retrieval

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getting info from LTM

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Recall

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recalling info form memory

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Cued Recall

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remembering in response to a retrieval cue

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Recognition

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identify previously encountered information

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Serial-position effect

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tendency to recall the first and last items of a list

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The Encoding Specificity Principle

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conditions of information retrieval are similar to the conditions of information encoding, retrieval is more likely to be successful

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Context Effect

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retrieval occurs in the same setting as encoding

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Mood Congruence

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a given mood tends to evoke memories that are consistent with that mood

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Decay Theory

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info disappears if it is not accessed

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Interference Theory

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forgetting is caused by one memory competing with another

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Retroactive Interference

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A new memory interferes with remembering an old one

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Proactive Interference

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Old memory interferes with remembering an old one

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Source Confusion

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a memory distortion the occurs when the source of the memory is forgotten

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Amnesia

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severe memory loss

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Retrograde Amnesia

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Loss of memory; episodic

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Anterograde

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inability to store new memories; Henry M had his hippocampus removed

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