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Exam 2 - Chapter 6 Flashcards

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1
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_________ – If we don’t have a word for something we cant think about it

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Wharf hypothesis

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_________ – can be split into a strong and weak argument

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Wharf hypothesis

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Wharf hypothesis -

_________ - If we don’t have a word for it than we can understand it – Bad Idea

_________ - Language can kind of influence our way of thinking about things – Good Idea

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  • Strong

- Weak

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LTM is complicated—a lot of different memory _________

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types

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Working memory – Range of _________

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seconds

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Long term memory – Seconds to _________

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infinity

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_________ : the first few words are remembered

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Primacy effect

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_________ : the last few words are remembered

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Recency effect

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Serial position curve –

_________ effect: Long term memory
_________ effect: Short term memory

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  • Primacy

- Recency

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Recency reflects what is in _________ memory

—previous items have been ‘_________’ out

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  • working

- bumped

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Primacy reflects what is in _________

—mental rehearsal, _________ words get more attention

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  • LTM

- early

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12
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_________ related to long term memory

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Primacy

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13
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_________ delay – sitting with nothing distracting during delay

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Unfilled

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_________ delay – having a task or something distracting during the delay

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Filled

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Slow presentation of the word list may _________ the Primacy Effect but not the Recency Effect

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Improve

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fMRI studies show hippocampal regions active when recalling _________ words on the list, but not for words at the _________ of list

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  • early

- end

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17
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_________ : the form in which stimuli are represented in the brain

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Coding

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_________ —keeping a pattern in WM visualizing a friend’s face

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Visual coding

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_________ —repeating a number in WM ‘hearing’ a song to remember the lyrics

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Auditory coding

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_________ —remembering numbers as a infamous year (e.g., 1492) getting the ‘gist’ of what someone is saying

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Semantic coding

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Henry Molaison (HM) (_________ )

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epilepsy

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Henry Molaison (HM) (epilepsy)
- \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_  removed in both hemispheres
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Hippocampus

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Henry Molaison (HM) (epilepsy)

  • Hippocampus removed in both hemispheres
  • Working Memory intact, but could not transfer to _________
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LTM

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24
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KF (_________)

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semantic

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25
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KF (semantic)

- _________ damage from a motorcycle accident

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Parietal lobe

26
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KF (semantic)
Parietal lobe damage from a motorcycle accident
-Normal LTM, but poor _________ (digit span = 2 items)

A

WM

27
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Clive Wearing

-Hippocampus damage due to herpesviral encephalitis (_________ )

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brain inflammation

28
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Clive Wearing
-Still able to play & conduct music, but can’t form new memories (‘wakes up every 20 seconds’)—can’t transfer WM to _________

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LTM

29
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Clive Wearing

Semantic memory intact, but _________ memory impaired

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episodic

30
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_________ – every day was like first time meeting doctors

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Henry Molaison (HM)

31
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_________ – separated memory in to components: episodic and semantic

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Endel Tulving

32
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_________ – special moment in life

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Episodic

33
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_________ – george washington facts

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Semantic

34
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Episodic (‘mental time travel’)—vivid/rich memories, including _________

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emotion

35
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Semantic (‘no travel’)—don’t often remember where you learned information…_________

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just know it

36
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_________- – means there’s two separate mechanism

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Double dissociation

37
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Semantic and Episodic are two different distinct types of _________

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memory

38
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Episodic can become _________

-Students cheating; breakups

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semantic

39
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Knowledge affects experience

- _________ knowledge guides experience—which affects _________ memory

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  • Semantic

- episodic

40
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_________ : memory for ourselves that includes semantic and episodic

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Autobiographical memory

41
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Our sense of self drives what we attend to—can lead to memory _________

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errors

42
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_________ : memories that we are aware of, can verbalize

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Explicit memories

43
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_________ memories: memories that we may not be aware of, cannot verbalize

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Implicit

44
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Implicit memories: memories that we may not be aware of, _________ verbalize

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-cannot

45
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Explicit memories: memories that we are aware of, _________ verbalize

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can

46
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Perceptual learning:

_________ – We are really sensitive to our environment, we pick up on statistical regularities which effect how we act

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Context effects

47
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Perceptual learning:
Context effects – We are really sensitive to our environment, we pick up on statistical _________ which effect how we act

A

regularities

48
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Explicit we can _________ explain

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verbally

49
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_________ -

-Often, thinking about them, impairs the memory

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Procedural (Implicit) Memories

50
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_________ -

Playing an instrument or video game

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Procedural (Implicit) Memories

51
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With amnesia _________ memory is still left intact

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implicit

52
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_________ – why you can tie a tie for yourself but not on someone else

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Implicit memory

53
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Procedural (_________) Memories

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Implicit

54
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_________ -

-HM buzzer hand doctor, didn’t want to shake his hand but didn’t know why

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Procedural (Implicit) Memories

55
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_________ : the presentation of one stimulus (priming stimulus) changes the response to another stimulus

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Priming

56
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Priming: the presentation of one stimulus (priming stimulus) _________ the response to another stimulus

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changes

57
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_________ – Something you’ve recently been talking about is more likely to come to mind or something you have seen more often in life

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Priming

58
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Priming – Something you’ve recently been talking about is more likely to come to _________ or something you have seen more often in life

A

mind

59
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_________-
Participants scanned magazine articles, but weren’t told to pay attention to ads on the opposite page
Higher ratings given for ads that they were exposed to, compared to new ads

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priming

60
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Priming:
_________-
-People rate statements as being true, just because they have heard them before

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Propaganda effect

61
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Classical Conditioning

_________ memory

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Implicit

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