Chapter 8: Motor Memory Flashcards
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What is Memory?
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- Permits organisms to benefit from past experiences.
- Our ability to recall what happened in the past.
2
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Encoding
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- Registering information from the environment into memory (similar to transduction)
3
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Storage
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- Capacity to retain encoded information in both active and nonactive forms until needed.
4
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Retrieval
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- Ability to locate and recall information stored withing memory.
5
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Declarative knowledge
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- Knowledge that can be verbally described,
- “What to do” to perform a skill.
6
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Procedural Knowledge
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- Knowledge that enables the person to actually perform a skill
- Know “how to do” a skill.
- Typically this knowledge is not verbalized or difficult to verbalize.
7
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What is sensory memory?
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- Stage of memory, takes in everything registered by sensory receptors and holds it for a brief period during which it can be organized, prioritized, and encoded in transferable form.
8
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What is working memory function?
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- Couples current sensory inputs, attentional processes, and relevant information from long term memory stores.
9
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Phonological loop
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- Short term storage of verbal information
10
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Visuospatial Sketchpad
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- Storing visually detected spatial information for short periods of time
11
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Episodic buffer
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- Intergrades phonological loop (information heard) and visio-spatial sketchpad (information seen) with aspect of long term memory.
12
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Central executive
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- Coordinates information in working memory, which includes info retrieved from long term memory.
13
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Trace Decay
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- Forgetting over time
- Associated with short term memory
14
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Interference
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- Forgetting that memories encoded into long term storage may fail to be retrieves into short term memory because other memories stored block retrieval.
- Associated with Long term memory
15
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Proactive inhibition
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- Interference of newer memories with retrieval of older memories.
