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Chapter 6: Memory Flashcards

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Memory is?

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Ability to store and retrieve information over time

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3 key functions of memory

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Encode- process by which we transform what we perceive, think, or feel into an enduring memory, store- maintaining information in memory over time, and retrieve- process of bringing to mind information that has been previously encoded. And stored

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What gets encoded?

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Semantic coding- process of actively relating new information in a meaningful way to knowledge that is already in memory, visual imagery encoding- process of storing new information by converting it into mental pictures, organizational encoding- process of categorizing information according to the relationships among a series of items

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Survival-encoding

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Survival encoding yields better memory.

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What type of encoding yields better memory?

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Survival-encoding

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Sensory storage

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Iconic memory- fast decaying store of visual information

Echoic memory- fast decaying store of auditory information

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Short-term storage

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Storage that holds non sensory information for more than a few seconds but less than a minute. It can hold 7 items

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Types of short term storage

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Rehearsal- process of keeping information in STM by mental repeating it

chunking- combining small pieces of information into larger clusters/chunks that are more easily held in STM

working memory- STM storage that actively maintains information

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Long-term memory

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Storage that holds for hours, days, weeks, or years. No known capacity.

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Hippocampus’ role in memory

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‘Indexes’ information to make memory concrete

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Anterograde amnesia

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Inability to transfer new information form the short-term store into the long-term store

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Retrograde amnesia

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Inability to retrieve information that was acquired before a particular date, usually the date of an injury or operation

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Semantic encoding

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Process of relating new information in a meaningful way to knowledge that is already stored in memory

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Visual imagery encoding

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The process of storing new information by converting it into mental pictures

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What is the process of putting new information into memory?

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Encoding

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What is the self-reference effect?

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The fact that the best recall is when we put something into the context of our own lives

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Mnemonics

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Acronyms that can be used to help memorize information

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Method of loci

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Associating each item in a list with a location along a route through a building that has already been memorized

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Where is short term memory housed?

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The hippocampus

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What are the two types of long term memory?

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Implicit (nondeclarative) memory and explicit (declarative) memory

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What is declarative memory

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Memories that require conscious recall. Divided into semantic memory and episodic memory

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No declarative memory

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Consists of our skills and conditioned responses

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Semantic memory

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Declarative memory type that involves all of the facts that we know

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Episodic memory

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Explicit memory type that involve our experiences

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Retrieval-induced forgetting

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Process by which retrieving an item from long-term memory impairs later recall of related items

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Suggestibility

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Tendency to incorporate misleading information from external sources into personal recollections

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What is the spacing effect?

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Phenomenon that spacing out the time between “relearning” helps later recall

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Persistence

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The intrusive recollection of events we wish we could forget

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Flashbulb effect

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Detailed recollections of when and where we hard about shocking events

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Confabulation

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Process of creating vivid but fabricated memories

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Consolidation

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Process by which memories become stable in the brain. Takes place in the hippocampus

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Reconsolidation

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Memories can become vulnerable to disruption when they are recalled, requiring them to be consolidate again

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Long term potentiation

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Process whereby communication across the synapse between neurons strengthens the connection, making further communication easier

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Retrieval cue

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External information associated with stored information that helps bring that information to mind

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Retrieval-induced forgetting

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Process by which retrieving an item from long-term memory impairs subsequent recall of related items

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Explicit memory

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Act of cobsoiusnesly or intentionally retrieving past experiences

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Implicit memory

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Influence of past experiences on later behavior, even without an effort to remember them or an awareness of the recollection

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Procedural memory

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Gradual acquisition of skills as a result of practice

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Priming

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Enhanced ability to think of a stimulus as a result of a recent exposure to the stimulus; less cortical activiation

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Semantic memory

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Network of associated facts and concepts that make up our general knowledge of the world

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Episodic memory

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Collection of past personal experiences that occurred at a particular time and place

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Collaborative memory

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How people share in groups

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Transience

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Memories fade (they are transient)

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Retroactive interference

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Situations where information learned later impairs memory for information acquired earlier

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Proactive interference

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Situations where information learned earlier impairs memory for information acquired later

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Absent mindedness

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Lapse in attention results in memory failure

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Blocking

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Failure to retrieve

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Memory misattribution

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Assigning a recollection or an idea to the wrong source

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Source memory

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Recall of when, where, and how information was acquired

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False recognition

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Feeling of familiarity about something that hasn’t been encountered before

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Suggestibility

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Tendency to incorporate misleading information from external sources into personal recollections

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Bias

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Distorting influences of present knowledge, beliefs, and feelings on recollection of previous experiences

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Consistency bias

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Tendency to reconstruct the past to fit the present

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Change bias

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Tendency to exaggerate differences between what we feel or believe now and what we felt or believed in the past

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Egocentric bias

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Tendency to exaggerate the change between the past and the present in order to make ourselves look good in retrospect

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Persistence

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Intrusive recollection of events that we wish we could forget

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Flashbulb memories

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Detailed recollections of when and where we heard about shocking events

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7 sins of memory

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Misattribution, persistence, bias, suggestibility, false recognition, blocking, absent mindedness

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