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Chapter 7 // Human Memory Flashcards

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Watching something and paying attention to it /Identifying t he details to begin preparing for memorization.

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Four Memory Steps: Perception

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Getting the memory ready for storage / Usually a verbal code.

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Four Memory Steps: Encoding

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Getting the memory into the brain / Groups of neurons that fire together.

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Four Memory Steps: Storage

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Getting the memory back when you need to use it. Can be frustrating during a test when you know the item but cant retrieve it from your brain

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Four Memory Steps: Retrieval

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Uses structural encoding (weakest form, remembering physical characteristics such as size/shape).

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Shallow Processing

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Uses phonemic encoding (middle form, remembering sounds of words such as rhymes).

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Intermediate Processing

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Uses semantic encoding (strongest form, remembering the word by its meaning).

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Deep Processing

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Know how encoding may be enriched.

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1) Elaboration
2) Visual Imagery
3) Self Referent Encoding

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Linking a stimulus to other information at the time of encoding. Phobias are caused by classical conditioning + your fear of spiders.

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Elaboration

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Forming a visual image in your head to remember a word. Picturing someone juggling to remember the word juggle.

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Visual Imagery

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Deciding how or whether information is personally relevant. The word love is important if you are in love.

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Self- Retreating Encoding

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o Takes in info that is passed from the sensory memory
o Very limited, can only take in about 5-9 unrelated items
o Can stay for 20 seconds if unused
o Relating information can be grouped together to fill only one STM slot
o Rehearsal can increase time in the STM or pass on to the LTM

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Atkinson and Shiffrin Model: Short Term Memory

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o Almost unlimited capacity

o Duration is almost unlimited

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Atkinson and Shiffrin Model: Long Term Memory

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o Takes in hundreds/thousands of pieces of memory every day
o Goes in as the way that they were formed
o Held for less than 1 second and then tossed back out
o Paying attention moves the memory forward

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Atkinson and Shiffrin Model: Sensory Memory

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Clear memories are kept from an important event that does not die away.

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Flashbulb Memory

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Featured Studies Relating to Flashbulb memory.

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Methods: Students at Duke were split into three randomly assigned groups, each were tested on Sept 12 about 9/11 but group 1 was retested one week after 9/11; group 2 was retested six weeks after 9/11; group 3 was retested 32 weeks after 9/11
Procedure: asked to describe their memory about 9/11 and when retested the two tests were compared
Results: there was no appreciable difference in consistency between participants’ flashbulb memories of 9/11 and their everyday memories over time but consistency declined over time at about the same rate for both types of memories
Discussion: the authors concluded that flashbulb memories fade gradually over time, even though people subjectively feel that these memories are especially vivid and accurate.

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The tendency to remember similar or related items in groups (even if the items were not presented that way)—conceptual hierarchy is a multilevel classification system based on common properties among items (example: minerals, metals/stones, etc.)

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Clustering and Conceptual Hierarchies

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An organized cluster of knowledge about a particular object or event abstracted from previous experience with the object or event. Example: college students have schemas for what professors’ offices are like—people would put desk, chairs, books, filling cabinet when in the picture there was only one chair, a wine bottle, etc.

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Schemas

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Consists of nodes representing concepts, joined together by pathways that link related concepts.

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Semantic Networks

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Assume that cognitive processes depend on patterns of activation in highly interconnected computational networks that resemble neural networks. Consists of a large network of interconnected computing units, or nodes, that operate much like neurons.

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Connectionist Network and Parallel Processing Models

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The Importance of Cues

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Memories can be jogged with information (first letter of the word)

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The Importance of Context

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Putting yourself back in the situation to try to remember what happened or what you need.

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When one recalls an event that they witnessed but enter misleading post-event information.

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The Misinformation Effect

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Making attributions about the origins of memories. Remembering that you read an article in the New York Times rather than Rolling Stone.

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Source Monitoring

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The process of deciding whether memories are based on external or internal sources. If something happened or you only think it happened.

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Reality Monitoring

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Having to retrieve the memory on your own (used in tests during fill in the blank/essays where there is no additional help)

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Recall

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Present the information in any order that you wish.

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Free Recall

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Having to recall the information in a correct order (history).

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Serial Recall

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Choices are in front of us (multiple choice test)

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Recognition

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Know Herman Ebbinghaus and his forgetting curve.

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  • Ebbinghaus learned lists of paired syllables and then would try to recall #2 while only seeing #1
  • Human forgetting is curved over time
  • Very rapid in the beginning and then slowly declines
  • Sleep shows the same pattern, but the forgetting is less severe
  • Ebbinghaus’ information is exaggerated because the syllables have nothing to be compared to.
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If the information is not encoded properly it is more likely to be forgotten (if a student simply skims over the textbook while paying more attention to the TV).

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Human Forgetting: Ineffective Encoding

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Something happens to the memory trace (like an old color photo it fades and blurs)

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Human Forgetting: Decay Theory

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Forgetting things because we confuse one memory with another.

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Human Forgetting: Interference Theory

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When the previously learned information interferes with the retention of new information.

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Proactive Interference

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When new information impairs the retention of previously learned information/ Learning the test material and then learning something new.

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Retroactive Interference

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Not being able to recall a memory at a certain time.

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Human Forgetting: Retrieval Failure

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The value of a retrieval cue depends on how well it corresponds to a memory code.

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Encoding Specificity Principle

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When the initial processing of information is similar to the type of processing required by the subsequent measure of retention. Semantic processing is better than phonemic for certain words.

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Transfer Appropriate Processing

39
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Forgetting things that we don’t want to think about.

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Human Forgetting: Motivated Forgetting

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Keeping distressing thoughts and feelings buried in the unconscious. Actually proven that it is harder to remember these things.

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Repression (Recovered Memories)

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Pro of Recovered Memories

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Many people who have been raped will deny that it happened years later.

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Con of Recovered Memories

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People are told that their problems are the result of other things.

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Know the role of Neural Circuitry in Memory.

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Alterations in synaptic transmission.

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“Memories may create unique, reusable pathways in the brain along which signals flow.”

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Richard Thompson

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Synapses become closer together and strong.

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Eric Kandel

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Affect memory store by modulating activity in the amygdala.

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Adrenal Hormones

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A long-lasting increase in neural excitability at synapses along a specific neural pathway.

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Long-Term Potentiation (LTP):

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A long-lasting decrease in neural excitability at synapses along a specific neural pathway.

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Long-Term Depression (LTD)-

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Involves the loss of memories for events that occurred prior to the onset of amnesia.

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Retrograde Amnesia

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The loss of memories for events that occur after the onset of amnesia.

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Anterograde Amnesia

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Accounts for much long-term memory through consolidation.

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Hippocampus

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A hypothetical process involving the gradual conversion of information into durable memory codes stored in long-term memory.

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Consolidation

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Seems to be critical for formation of learned fears.

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Amygdala

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Stores memories.

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Cerebral Cortex

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Important in working memory.

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Prefrontal Cortex

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Involves the loss of memories for events that occurred prior to the onset of amnesia.

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Retrograde Amnesia

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The loss of memories for events that occur after the onset of amnesia.

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Anterograde Amnesia

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Handles factual information.

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Declarative Memory

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Memory of how to do things.

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Procedural Memory

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Chronological recollections of personal experiences.

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Episodic Memory

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General knowledge that is not tied to the time when the information was learned.

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Semantic Memory

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Remembering to perform actions in the future.

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Prospective Memory

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Remembering events from the past or previously learned information.

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Retrospective Memory

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Know the Personal Application “Improving Everyday Memory.”.

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  • Mnemonic devices: strategies for enhancing memory
  • Overlearning: refers to continued rehearsal of material after you first appear to have mastered it.
  • Serial-position effect: occurs when subjects show better recall for items at the beginning and end of a list than for items in the middle
  • Link method: involves forming a mental image of items to be remembered in a way that links them together
  • Method of loci: involves taking an imaginary walk along a familiar path where images of items to be remembered are associated with certain locations

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