Learning and Memory Flashcards

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Sensory Memory

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Very Detailed and Precise memory

Less than 1 second recall.

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Iconic Sensory Memory

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Visual Sensory Memory

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Echoic Sensory Memory

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Auditory Sensory Memory

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Short-Term Memory

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About 30 seconds.

Payed Attention.

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Where is Short-Term Memory stored?

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Hippocampus

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Whole-Report

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Asking to recite EVERYTHING shown

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Partial-Report

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Asking to recite SOME of what was shown

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Working Memory

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SHORT-TERM Memory we use to MANIPULATE.

ex. MATH

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Where is WORKING MEMORY supported

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Hippocampus

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Long-Term Memory

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  1. Needs REHEARSAL

2. Hippocampus—->Cerebral Cortex

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Implicit Memory

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UNCONSCIOUS Long-Term Memory

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Explicit Memory

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CONSCIOUS Long-Term Memory

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13
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Declarative Memory

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Facts AND Events

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Episodic Memory

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Experiences and Events

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15
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Semantic Memory

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Facts and Concepts

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16
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Spacing Effect

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Long amounts of time between sessions of RELEARNING will increase retention.

17
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Semantic Network

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Brain organizes concepts based on similar meaning

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Spreading Activation

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Activation of peripheral concepts near the one primarily stimulated in he semantic network.

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Priming

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Retrieval by sowing a word CLOSE-TO the desired word.

20
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Context Effect

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SAME PLACE = BETTER MEMORY

21
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Serial Position Effect

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Place of items = better remembering

  1. Primacy
  2. Recency
22
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State-Dependent Memory

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Memory based on MENTAL STATE

23
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Sundowning

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Increased Dysfunction function for Alzheimer’s Patients at evening.

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Dementia

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Loss of Cognitive Function

25
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Method of Loci

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Memory though associating thing with Location along route.

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Peg Word

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NUMBER w/

  1. Rhyme
  2. Represents #