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Chapter 7 Flashcards

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1
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how info is maintained in memory

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storage

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how info is pulled back out of memory

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retrieval

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how info gets into memory, forming a memory code

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encoding

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what do you need to do to move something from senosry memory to working memory

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you have to pay attention

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what can you do to keep something in working memory

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rehearsal

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sensory memory

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preserves info in its original sensory form for a brief time

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a limited capacity store that can maintain unrehearsed info for up to 20 sec

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short term memory

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has a capacity of .5-4 seconds long

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sensory memory

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capacity of 10-20 seconds

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working memory

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phonological loop

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what you play in your head- rehearsing , v

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what happened in the last 40 seconds

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Episodic buffer

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12
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shifts attention from one thing to the next

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Central Executive

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Visuospatial Sketchpad

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ability to keep representations in your mind

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“emphasizes the meaning of verbal input”

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Semantic encoding : deeper processing

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ways to enrich the encoding process

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elaboration, visual imagery, and motivation to remember

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linking a stimulus to other info at the time of encoding

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elaboration

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visual imagery

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the creation of visual images to represent the words to be remembered

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unusually vivid and detailed recollections of momentous events that are not always really accurate

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flashbulb memory

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occurs when partcipants’ recall of an event they witnessed is altered by introducing misleading postevent info

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Misinformation effect

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what is a schema

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an organized cluster of knowledge about a particular object or event abstracted from previous experience with the object or event

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what is a source-monitoring error

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when a memory derived from one source is misattributed to another source (eye witness testimony )

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what is the decay theory

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forgetting occurs because memory traces fade with time

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occurs when new info impairs the retention of previously learned info

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Retroactive interference

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Repression

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keeping distressing thoughts and feelings buried in the unconscious

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Proactive interference

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occurs when previously learned info interferes with the retention of new info

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retention

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refers to the proportion of material remembered

27
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people have failed to encode the information due to lack of attention

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ineffective encoding, pseudo forgetting

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a person loses memories for events that occurred prior to the injury

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retrograde amnesia

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a person loses memories for events that occurs after the injury

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anterograde amnesia

30
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handles factual infomation

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declarative memory system

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houses memory for actions, skills, conditioned responses, and emotional memories

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non declarative memory system

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“a hypothetical process involving the gradual conversion of info into durable memory codes stored in long term memory”

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consolidation

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ex) names, dates, concepts, and ideas

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declarative memory

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ex) actions like tying a shoes, cradling a lacrosse stick and biking

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nondeclarative memory

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what one is more vulnerable to forgetting

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declarative memory

36
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the declarative memory system divides into what two systems

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semantic and episodic

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what is the episodic memory system made up of

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personal facts

38
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what is the semantic memory system made up of

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general facts

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ex) birthday is the 9th

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semantic

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ex) dogs have four legs

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semantic

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record of things you done, seen, or heard

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episodic

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ex) the trip you took in the 4th grade

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episodic

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involves remembering events from the past or previously learned info

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retrospective memory

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involves remembering to perform actions in the futre

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prospective memory

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ex) remembering to do chores

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prospective

46
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ex) trying to remember what you did yesterday

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retrospective

47
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this kind of memory is easy to forget when interrupted or distracted

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prospective

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