Cognition Flashcards
Encode
Breaking info down
Store/Retain
Rehearsal and practice
Retrival
Recall
Episodic Memory
Life experiences Ex vacation
Semantic
Facts Ex school
Flashbulb
Traumatic memory Ex 9/11
Hippocampus
Short term memory
Frontal lobe
Long term memory
Implicit memories (automatic processing)
Process without conscious awareness
Procedural
Motor skills, controlled by cerebellum Ex riding a bike
Classically condition associations
Cerebellum
Ex nervous before test
Habitual
Habits
Ex picking
Basil ganglia
Iconic
Visual and last 1 sec
Echoic
Hearing last 4 sec
Short term memories holds…
5-9 bits of info
Phonological
Auditory repetition
Audiovisuals
Mental image
Long term memory space is…
unlimited
Chunking
Breaking something into smaller pieces
Mnemonic device
visual aid Ex ROYGBIV
Spacing effect
Studying for a bit over time
Testing effect
Quizzing yourself
Shallow processing
Encoding or learning something on a basic level Ex words
Structural
Encoding the physical qualities of something (appearance)
Phonemic
encoding the sound of a word
Semantic encoding
Encode the meaning of the word and relate it to similar words
Thalamus is involved in…
encoding info
Infantile amnesia
Cant remember the first 3 years of life
Long term potentiation
The neural connections at snapes are strengthens
Recall
Retrieval of previously learned into
Recognition
Identification of learned items when they are presented
Relearning
Learning something more quickly the 2nd time
Priming
Using previous knowledge/experience to retrieve a memory
Contact dependent memory
Where you learn something is the best remembered in the same physical environment
State dependence memory
Things we learn in one mental/physical state are more easily recalled in that same state
Mood congruent memory
You remember something better when you are in the same mood in which you encode that info
Serial position effect
Our tendency to recall the first and last items in a list
Anterograde amnesia
Cant make new memories after an damage to the hippocampus
Encoding failure
Inability to create memory link not paying attention
Retrieval failure
Cant access a memory
Retrograde amnesia
Cant recall old memories
Storage decay
Fading memories
Proactive interference
Old block new
Retroactive interference
New block old
Source amnesia
inability to remember where when or how previously learned info has been acquired while retaining the factual knowledge