Introduction to Memory Flashcards

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Memory

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learning over time, through storage and retrieval of information and skills

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Explicit Memory

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facts and experiences that we know and recall

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Episodic Memory

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type of explicit memory; personal and life experiences

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Semantic Memory

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type of explicit memory; facts and general knowledge

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Implicit Memory

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memories we retrieve automatically (remember right away)

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Procedural Memory

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type of implicit memories; skills, habits, tasks that can be completed without conscious recall

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Prospective Memory

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helps us remember to carry out future events (“remember to remember”)

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Long-Term Potentiation

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signals sent across the synapse more efficiently with repetition

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Working Memory Model

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visual and hearing sense processes information and send to long term memory storage

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Central Executive

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controls attention and coordinates information

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Phonological Loop

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briefly handles the auditory and verbal information

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Visuospatial Sketchpad

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briefly handles visual and spacial information

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Long-Term Memory

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where our information and skills go for later use and remembrance

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Multi-Store Model

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information comes in through sensory register, then moved to short-term memory storage and is remembered and then send to long term memory storage

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Sensory Memory

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immediate and brief recording of sensory information before it is processed into short-term or long-term memory

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Echoic Memory

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memory of what you just heard, even if you weren’t paying attention

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Iconic Memory

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helps you remember a visual scene of what just happened

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Automatic Processing

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the information skips sensory register and short-term memory and goes straight to long-term memory

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Effortful Processing

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when you have to try/think about the information to remember it

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Structural Encoding

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what you remember the physical appearance (what it looks like) of the information (lowest processing level)

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Phonemic Encoding

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remembering how the word or information sounds (middle processing level)

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Semantic Encoding

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remembering what the information means and associating it with other concepts or ideas (deepest processing level)