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Chapter 7- Memory Flashcards

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Memory demonstrated by time saved when learning material a second time

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Relearning

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The process of getting information into the memory system

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Encoding

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The activation, often unconsciously, of particular associations in memory

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Priming

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What type of memories are memories of physical skills

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Implicit memories

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Encoding is more effective when it is spread over time

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Spacing effect

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This part of the brain plays an important role in forming and storing memories created by classical conditioning. Also deals with implicit memory formation

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Cerebellum

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Memory that stresses conscious, active processing of incoming information, and of information retrieved from long-term memory. Processes important, focused information

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Working memory

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This part of the brain helps form memories for physical skills. Also deals with implicit memory formation

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Basal Ganglia

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The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new information

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Proactive interference

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An anchor point for pathways to memories suspended in the web of associations in our brain

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Retrieval cue

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Sensory memory persists about one-third of a second then quickly fades away according to what Psychologist

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George Sperling

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Activated memory that holds a few items briefly (such as the seven digits of a phone number while dialing) before the information is stored or forgotten

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Short-term memory

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A method to help us think about how the brain forms and retrieves memories

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Information-processing models

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A type of memory that is improved when the context present at encoding and retrieval are the same

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Context-dependent memory

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Memory aids, especially techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices

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Mnemonics

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The process of getting information out of memory storage

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Retrieval

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The persistence of learning over time through the encoding, storage, and retrieval of information

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Memory

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Unless rehearsed, verbal information can be quickly forgotten

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Short-term memory decay

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Retaining learned skills, or classically conditioned associations, without conscious awareness (also called nondeclarative memory)

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Implicit memory

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Reducing information into meaningful units that are easier to remember

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Chunking

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Muscle memory

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Procedural

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A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event

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Flashbulb memory

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Lasting physical changes in the brain as a memory forms

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Memory trace

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Memory of facts and personal events you can consciously retrieve. (also called declarative memory)

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Explicit memory

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In psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness the thoughts, feelings, and memories that arouse anxiety

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Repression

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Echoic memory

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Auditory

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Iconic memory

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Visual

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Unconscious encoding of everyday information, such as a space, time, and frequency, and of well-learned information, such as word meanings

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Automatic processing

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An increase in a synapse’s firing potential. Believed to be a neural basis for learning and memory

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Long-term potentiation (LTP)

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Memory demonstrated by identifying items previously learned, as on a multiply-choice test

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Recognition

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A neural center located in the Limbic system. Explicit memories for facts and episodes are processed here and fed to other brain regions for storage.

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Hippocampus

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Where priming memory is often helped by returning to the context of the experience

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Context effects

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The relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system. Includes knowledge, skills, and experiences

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Long-term memory

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When a memory has been corrupted by misleading information

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Misinformation effect

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The immediate, very brief recording of sensory information in the memory system

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Sensory memory

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Memory demonstrated by retrieving information learned earlier, as on a fill-in-the-blank test

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Recall

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A type of practice that utilizes the spacing effect and produces speedy, short term learning and feelings of confidence

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Massive practice

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Faulty memory for how, when, or where information was learned or imagined

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Source amnesia

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Producing an idea you think is original but is actually something you forgot you learned previously

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Cryptomnesia

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That eerie sense that “I’ve experienced this before.” Cues from the current situation may unconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience

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Deja vu

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Our tendency to recall best the last and first items in a list

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Serial position effect

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A type of practice that utilizes the spacing effect and produces better long-term recall

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Distributed practice

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A type of memory that is associated to autobiographical events that can be explicitly stated or conjured

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Episodic memory

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Forgetting is initially rapid then levels off with time

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Storage decay

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The process of retaining encoded information over time

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Storage

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This part of the brain deals strictly with emotion-related memory formation

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Amygdala

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Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort

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Effortful processing

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Literally “without memory”- a loss of memory, often due to brain trauma, injury, or disease

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Amnesia

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The disruptive effect of new learning on a recall of old information

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Retroactive interference

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A type of amnesia where conscious memory of the first 3 years is blank

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Infantile amnesia

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A type of memory that is a part of LTM and is responsible for motor skills

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Procedural memories

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The tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with your current good or bad mood

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Mood-congruent memory

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Encoding is very effective under this repetitive method

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Testing effect

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