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Episodic And Semantic Memory Flashcards

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Memories for a specific autobiographical event

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Episodic

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Two types of long term memory

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Declarative (explicit)

Nondeclarative (Implicit)

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Memories for facts and general knowledge

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Semantic

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Initial storing of memories

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Encoding

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Maintaining the stored memory

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Storage/consolidation

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Re-activating the memory for further processing

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Retrieval

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Old info interferes with new info

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Proactive interference

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New info interferes with old info

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Retroactive interference

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When info is correctly remembered but mistakenly associated with an incorrect source

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Source misattribution

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Info is correctly remembered but the source is not remembered at all

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Source amnesia

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Mistakenly remembering someone else’s ideas as ones own

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Cryptomnesia

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Theoretical process of strengthening the stability of stored info

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Consolidation

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Keeping a memory permanently

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Reconsolidation

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Working memory

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What you’re currently attending to

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Long term memory

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Declarative and nondeclarative

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Three major process for memory

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Encoding
Consolidation
Retrieval

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Memory can fail for 4 reasons:

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Simple forgetting
Interference
Misattribution
False memory

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Auditory agnosia

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Can’t understand words, other sounds are recognized and reading/writing intact

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Tactile agnosia

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Can’t recognize objects by feel

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Hippocampus and related MTL are required for initial storage and retrieval of an episodic memory but diminishes over time until cortex is able to take over without hippocampal help

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Standard consolidation theory

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Episodic memories are encoded by hippocampal as well as cortical networks and cortical networks never become fully independent of the hippocampus

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Multiple memory trace theory

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Transient global amnesia (TGA)

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Temporary disruption of memory

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Functional amnesia

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Sudden massive anterograde memory loss from psych causes

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Dissociative amnesia

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Lost memory of a specific traumatic event

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Dissociative fugue

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Lost memory of identity

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