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Chapter 7 - Memory Flashcards

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What is memory illusion?

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False but subjectively compelling memory

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What is memory?

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retention of information over time

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What is sensory memory?

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brief storage of perceptual information before it is passed to short-term memory

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What is iconic memory?

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visual sensory memory

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What is short-term memory?

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memory system that retains information for limited durations

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What is decay?

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Fading of information from memory over time.

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What is interference?

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loss of information from memory because of competition from additional information

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What are the two types of intereference?

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retroactive and proactive

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What is retroactive interference?

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Interference with retention of old information due to acquisition of new information.

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What is proactive interference?

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Interference with acquisition of new information due to previous learning of information

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What is the magic number?

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The span of short-term memory: according to George Miller: seven plus or minus two pieces of information

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What is chunking?

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organizing information into meaningful groupings, allowing us to extend the span of short-term memory

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What is rehearsal?

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repeating information to extend the duration of retention in short-term memory and promote the likelihood of transfer to long-term memory

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What are the two major types of rehearsal?

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maintenance and elaborative

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What is maintenance rehearsal?

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repeating stimuli in their original from to retain them in short-term memory

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What is elaborative rehearsal?

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linking stimuli to each other in a meaningful way to improve retention of information in short-term memory

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What are the levels of processing?

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depth of transforming information, which influences how well we remember it

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What is long-term memory?

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relatively enduring (from minutes to years) retention of information stored regarding our facts, experiences and skills

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What is permastore?

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type of long-term memory that appears to be permanent

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What is the primacy effect?

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tendency to remember words at the beginning of a list especially well

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What is the recency effect?

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tendency to remember words at the end of a list especially well.

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What is the Von Restorff effect?

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tendency to remember stimuli that are distinctive or that stick out like sore thumbs from other stimuli

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What is serial position curve?

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graph depicting both primacy/recency effects on prople’s ability to recall items on a list

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What is semantic memory?

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our knowledge of facts about the world

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What is episodic memory?

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recollection of events in our lives

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What is explicit memory?

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memories we recall intentionally and of which we have conscious awareness

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What is implicit memory?

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memories we don’t deliberately remember or reflect on consciously

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What is procedural memory?

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memory for how to do things, including motor skills and habits

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What is priming?

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our ability to identify a stimulus more easily or more quickly after we’ve encountered similar stimuli

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What is encoding?

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process of getting information into our memory banks

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What is a mnemonic?

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a learning aid, strategy, or device that enhances recall

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What is storage?

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process of keeping information in memory

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What is a schema?

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organized knowledge structure or mental model that we’ve stored in memory

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What is retrieval?

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reactivation or reconstruction of experiences from our memory stores

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What are retrieval cues?

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hints that makes it easier for us to recall information

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What is a recall?

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generating previously remebered information

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What is recognition?

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selecting previously remmebered information from an array of options

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What is relearning?

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Reacquiring knowledge that we’d previously learned but largely forgotten over time

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What is the tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon?

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Experience of knowing that we know something but being unable to access it

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What is encoding specificity?

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phenomenon of remembering something better when the conditions under which we retrieve information are similar to the conditions under which we encoded it.

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What is context-dependent learning?

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superior retrieval of memories when the external context of the original memories matches the retrieval context

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What is state-dependent-learning?

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Superior retrieval of memories when the organism is in the same physiological/psychological state as it was during encoding

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What is long-term potentiation?

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Long-lasting strengthening of the connections between two neurons after synchronous activation

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What is long-term depression?

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Long-lasting weakening of the connections between two neurons after low patterns of activation

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What is retrograde amnesia?

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Loss of memories from our past

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What is anterograde amnesia?

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Inability to encode new memories from our experiences

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What is meta-memory?

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Knowledge about our own memory abilties and limitations

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what is infantile amnesia?

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Inability of adults to remember experiences at an early age

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What is a flash-bulb memory?

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Emotional memory that is extraordinary vivid/detailed

50
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What is source monitoring confusion?

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Look of clarity about the origin of a memory

51
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What is cryptomnesia?

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Failure to recognize that our ideas originated with someone else

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What is a suggestive memory technique?

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Procedure that encourages patients to recall memories that may or may not have taken place

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What is a misinformation effect?

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Creation of fictitious memories by providing misleading information about an event after it takes place

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