Chapter 7 A Flashcards

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What is memory?

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A cognitive system

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What is the purpose of memory?

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Encodes
Stores
retrieves information
linked to learning

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3
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Memory isn’t like a a recording of a video, but it is..

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An interpretive process involving retrieving and reconstruction information .

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What does memory require?

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Conscious thought

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Encoding?

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modifying information to fit the format of a memory system.

like a CD being transferred to an iPod

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Storage?

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Holding information overtime so they may be used.

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7
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Access and Retrieval?

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Access = locating stored information
Retrieval = information form that stored memory
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Where is sensory memory stored?

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As working memory and or as long-term memory

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9
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What is the first stage in storying sensory memory?

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Sensory register: after image in the form of neural activity

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What is the capacity of a sensory memory register?

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12+ items and only last for a few seconds

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working memory ( Short-Term Memory)?

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Holds recently perceived events for a very short time

Useful for problem solving ( you would remember the question of the test you are working on)

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What is the capacity of working memory?

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5-9 items and last approximately 1 minute

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13
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Chunking?

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Organizing memories into smaller and more meaningful units of information

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Maintenance rehearsal?

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repeating or renewing information to keep it from fading away

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15
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Elaborate rehearsal?

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actively reviewing information in working memory and deliberately finding connection to information already stored in long term memory

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16
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What is the capacity of long term memory?

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has no capacity

17
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long term memory?

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stores information in an organized fashion, according to its meaning

18
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What is declarative memory apart of and what is it?

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  • long term memory

- stores explicate information ( facts)

19
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What are the subdivisions of declarative memory?

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Episodic memory- memories for personal experience or events
Semantic memory: general knowledge- stuff learned at school
Procedural memory: memories about how to do things

20
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what does memory retrieval rely on?

A

cues

21
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Eidetic memory:

A

exceptionally clear and persistent form of long-term memory

22
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Flashbulb memory?

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extremely clear, vivid memory for a specific meaningful or emotional event ( when JFK was assassinated)
- no more accurate that a regular memory and decay over time in the same way