Chapter 7 B Flashcards

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Priming?

A

using cues to stimulate memory retrieval..

without conscious awareness of the connection between cue and stored memory

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Encoding specificity principle:

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The encoding specificity principle is the general principle that matching the encoding contexts of information at recall assists in the retrieval of episodic memories

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What is elaborative rehearsal?

A

examples of something

-good for studying

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T/F if your in a good mood it is easy to remember happy times?

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True

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T/F if your in a bad mood it is easy to remember to remember bad or poor times?

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True

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Prospective memory?

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remember to remember

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What is continuous monitoring?

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rehearsing to hold important information in mind

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Recall?

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technique for retrieving explicit memories

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Recognition?

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remembering items previously learned

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What is the order for making a memory?

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Sensory input -> sensory memory -> (attention) -> working memory -> (encoding) -> long-term memory

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What do the hippocampus and amygdala do for long term memory?

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used for memory encoding

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What is Retrograde Amnesia?

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inability to remember prior events

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What is Anterograde Amnesia?

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inability to form new long term memory

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14
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What is memory transience?

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loss of memory

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15
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What is the forgetting curve?

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rapid decay of memory

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16
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What is proactive-interference?

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an old memory disrupts formation of a new one

17
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What is retroactive-interference

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new prevents retrieval of old information

18
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What is the serial position effect?

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ease of remembering something depends in part upon position in a sequence

19
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What is primary effect

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relatively easy to remember the first items in a list

20
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What is absent mindedness?

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forgetting information because attention was shifted elsewhere

21
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Blocking?

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when something is stored in LTM can’t be recalled

22
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tip-of-the0tongue phenomenon?

A

form of blocking

situational cues are close but not quite enough to match your stored memory

23
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Misattribution?

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memory’s are retrieved. .. but contains false details

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Suggestibility?

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memory distortion that can occur due to priming by another source

25
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Bias?

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Attitudes, beliefs, emotions, or experiences that distort memories

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Expectancy bias?

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Unconscious tendency to remember events consistent with our experiences

27
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Persistence?

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unwanted memories can’t be forced out of your mind

28
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Mnemonics?

A

making connections between new information and previously stored memories

29
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Method of Loci?

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Mentally link items to be remembered to physical spaces

30
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Natural language mediators?

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linking words to information to be remembered