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Chapter 7: Memory Flashcards

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Memory of a specific event

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Episodic memory

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Events so important we remember every detail (birthday, wedding)

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Flashbulb memory

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General info that we know (ABCS)

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Semantic memory

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Things that are clearly stated (riding a bike)

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Explicit memories

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Not clearly stated; including practiced skills and learned habits

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Implicit memory

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Translation of information into a form in which it can be used

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Encoding

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Form mental pictures

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Visual codes

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Using sounds to remember

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Acoustic codes

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Making sense out of of something (try to find meaning)

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Semantic codes

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Maintenance of encoded information over time

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Storage

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Mechanical or rote repetition of info to keep from forgetting it

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Maintenance rehearsal

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Relate new information to something you already know

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Elaborative rehearsal

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Filing system used to arrange learned info for later retrieval

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Organizational systems

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Information filed incorrectly; hard to retrieve it when you need it

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Filing errors

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Locating stored info and returning it to conscious thought

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Retrieval

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Memories that come back to you in the place where they took place

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Context-Dependent Memory

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Memories that return because of the mood you’re in (happy=Christmas)

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State-Dependent Memory

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Feeling that you know something but you just can’t retrieve it

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Tip of the Tongue

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Immediate; initial recording of data that enters through the senses

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Sensory memory

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Visual impression that decays within a fraction of a second

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Memory trace

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Accurate, photographic images

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Iconic memory

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Ability to remember visual stimuli over long periods of time

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Eidetic imagery (photographic memory)

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Mental traces of sounds

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Echoic memory

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Working memory; storage for information after the memory trace fades away

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Short-Term Memory

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Tendency to recall the first items in a series

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Primacy effect

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Tendency to recall the last items in a list

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Recency effect

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Organization of items into familiar/ manageable units (937-726-2276)

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Chunking

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Average person can remember about 7 items in a list

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George Miller

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New information appears in short-term memory and takes the place of what was already there

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Interference

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Asked college students to remember three letter combinations, then ask them to count down from 3s (interference)

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Lloyd and Margaret Peterson Study

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Last stage; holds information for extended period of time

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Long-Term Memory

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Recollect prior experiences and info and skills learned from the past

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Memory

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The mental representations we form in the world by organizing parts

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Schemas

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Information that is crowded out/ forgotten

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Displaced

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A study with nonsense syllables (maintenance rehearsal)

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Hermann Ebbinghaus

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Identifying objects or events that have been encountered before

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Recognition

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Studied yearbook photos (more likely to remember faces than names)

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Harry Bahrick

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Bring something back into your mind

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Recall

39
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Learn information that you already know

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Relearning

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Fading away a memory over time

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Decay

41
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Forgetting something on purpose without knowing it

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Repression

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Severe loss of memory often caused by brain trauma

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Amnesia

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Forgetting the memories that occurred before the accident (50 First Dates)

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Retrograde Amnesia

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Memory loss after a traumatic event (10 Second Tom)

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Anterograde amnesia

45
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Not remembering events before the age of three

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Infantile Amnesia

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Acronyms, phrase, jingles to help you memorize something

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Mnemonic devices

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