Factors that influence ability to remember Flashcards

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What is forgetting?

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inability to recover info that was previously stored

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What is the encoding specificity principle?

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discovered by Tulving and Thomson

- states that associations made in the time of encoding a memory - will be the most effective retrieval cue

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What are retrieval cues?

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stimulus that helps the process of recovering info in memory

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What are context-dependent cues?

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environmental cues of a situation where a memory was formed

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What are some examples of context-dependent cues?

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sight + smell + brightness of light

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What are state-dependent cues?

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physiological and psychological state the person was in when the memory was formed

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What are some examples of state-dependent cues?

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mood + level of anxiety

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What is maintenance rehearsal?

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repeating info over and over again in order to increase the duration of STM

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What is elaborative rehearsal?

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linking a new memory to a preexisting long term memory in a meaningful way

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What are the pros and cons of both maintenance rehearsal and elaborative rehearsal?

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Maintenance is good for meaningless info
= but can be interrupted by new info
= shallow level of processing
Elaborative rehearsal increases long term retention and increases understanding
= but can be time consuming
= takes more conscious effort

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What is the serial position effect?

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states that there will be better recall of words at the beginning and end of a list than the middle of a list

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What is the primacy effect?

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superior recall of words at the beginning of a list

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What is the recency effect?

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superior recall of words at the end of a list

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Where are the words at the start transferred and where are the words at the end transferred?

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words at the start = in LTM

words at the end = STM

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What is an asymptote?

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worse recall of words in the middle of the list

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