final review (U3) Flashcards
memory
learning over time
encoding
sensory
- initial recording
short term
- 7 plus/minus 2 digits
- long-term or forgotten
iconic memory
visual
echoic
auditory
long-term potentiation (LTP)
synapse firing (memories)
automatic processing
disliking someone
effortful processing
required rehearsal
next-in-line effect
- forget previous info when needed to go next
spacing effect
- study over time is beneficial
serial positioning effect
- remember first/last items
flashbulb memory
clear moment of significant event
9/11
explicit (LTM)
conscious recall
semantic
facts
explicit
LTM
episodic
personally experienced events
explicit
LTM
implicit
without conscious recall
LTM
skills
implicit
LTM
motor
classical/operant conditioning
implicit
LTM
hippocampus
memory
- left: verbal
- right: visual/location
mood congruent theory
being depressed and recollecting sad memories and staying sad for new memories
state-dependent memory
when parents ranting how you’re always like that
Ebbinghaus forgetting curve
- retainment 30%
- time since learned
proactive interference
- old affects new (PORN)
retroactive interference
- new affects old (PORN)
anterograde amnesia
- cant remember AFTER b/c of trauma (LTM)
retrograde amnesia
- cant rmb before bc trauma (LTM)
loftus
- car crash and wording effect
- memories distorted
overregulation
- i sitted
confirmation bias
search for info that meets our schemas
fixation bias
inability to c others perspectives
heuristic
- easy way to solve a problem using judgements
- prone to error
