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Chapter 7 Flashcards

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Memory is

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The retention of information and experiences over time

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The three processes involved in memory

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  1. Encoding
  2. Storage
  3. Retrieval
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Encoding

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The first step in the memory process. Gets information into storage

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Storage

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Retaining information over time

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Retrieval

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Taking information out of storage

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Encoding requires?

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Attention. But the attention must be selective

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Memory is negatively influenced by?

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Divided attention

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Theory of levels processing / Levels of processing

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Information is processed from shallow (sensory or physical features)
To intermediate (labels are attached to stimuli)
To deep (meaning of the stimuli and their associations with other stimuli are processed)

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Deeper processing produces?

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Better memory

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Elaboration

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Deeper processing when we make connections between new information and old

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What can improve memory?

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Using imagery, or mental pictures, as a context for information

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Atkinson-Shiffrin theory

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Describes memory as a three stage process: sensory memory, short-term memory, and long term memory

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Sensory memory

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Holds perceptions of the world for only an instance

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Short term memory

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This is information from sensory memory that is attended to and passed on to be short-term memory. Limited capacity and retains information for 30 seconds.

Can last longer if strategies are used

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Working memory is a combination of?

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Short term memory and attention

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Long term memory

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A relatively permanent type of memory that holds huge amounts of information for a long time

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Long-term memory has two main components

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Explicit and implicit memory

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Explicit memory (Declarative)

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The conscious recollection of information such as specific facts or events

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Implicit memory (Nondeclarative)

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Affects behavior through prior experiences that are not consciously recollected

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Explicit memory has two dimensions

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Episodic memory and semantic memory

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Implicit memory is multidimensional

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Includes systems for procedural memory, priming, and classical conditioning

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Memories are not?

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Stored in single locations of the brain

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Memories are considered as?

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Networks of neurons that represent pathways and that are activated when we remember

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The areas of the brain that are active when we remember?

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Depends on what we are remembering

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Serial position effect

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The tendency to recall items at the beginning and the end of a list better than the middle items

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Primacy effect

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Tendency to recall items at the beginning of the list better than the middle item

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Recency effect

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Tendency to remember the items at the end of the list better than the middle items

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Retrieval is easier when?

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Effective cues are present

Another factor in effective retrieval is the nature of the retrieval task

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Encoding specificity principle

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Information present at the time of encoding in learning tends to be effective as a retrieval cue

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Tip-of-the-tounge phenomenon

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When we cannot pull something out of memory

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Autobiographical memory

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A person’s recollections of his or her life experiences

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Autobiographical memory has three levels

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Life time periods, general events, event-specific knowledge

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Emotional memories may be

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Vivid and enduring

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Memory for personal trauma is

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More accurate than memory for ordinary events but is subject to distortion and inaccuracy

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Personal trauma can cause individuals to?

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Repress emotionally laden information so that it is not accessible to consciousness

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Repression

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Forgetting a particularly troubling experience because it would be too upsetting to remeber

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Eyewitness testimony

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May contain errors due to memory decay or bias

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Information can be attended to through?

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Divided attention and sustained attention

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Divided attention

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Trying to pay attention to more than one thing

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Sustained attention

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Paying attention to something for a longer period of time

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Levels of processing

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Indicates how deeply you are processing the information you are attending

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Episodic memory

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Memory that stores your life memories. Like an autobiographical

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Semantic memory

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Memory that includes knowledge. (Studying for a test)

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Priming (Implicit)

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The activation of information stored in memory to help remember new information better

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Memory is organized through?

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Schema

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Schema

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Preexisting mental concepts that help organize and interpret information from experience

Ex: A script is a schema for an event that provides information about what to expect and how to act

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Parallel distributed processing

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Brain connections and neural networks work together to process each memory

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Flashbulb memory

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An emotionally charged memory, often recalled vividly

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Motivated forgetting

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Forgetting something very painful or fear-invoking because it is too unpleasant to remember

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Interference theory

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People forget because other information gets in the way

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Proactive interference

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Occurs when new information is disrupted by previously stored information

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Retroactive interference

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New information disrupts previously stored information

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Decay theory

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When you learn something a memory trace is created but over time and disuse it disintegrates

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Retrospective memory

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Remembering information from the past

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Prospective memory

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Remembering something that is going to happen in the future

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Amnesia

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The loss of memory

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Anterograde amnesia

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An inability to retain new information in memory

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Retrograde amnesia

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An inability to remember some past memories but not new experiences

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Ways to improve short-term memory

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Chunking and Rehearsal

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False memories

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Failure to distinguish real memories from self-generated thoughts. A memory can be false even when we are confident it is vivid and clear

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Emotional memories consist of

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Flashbulb memories, traumatic events, and repressed memories

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Study tips

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  1. Give undivided attention
  2. Process deeply
  3. Make associations
  4. Use Imagery
  5. Use Chunking
  6. Encode early and often

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