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Long-term memory Flashcards

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1
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The long-term memory is an ____________ of past events and knowledge learned

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archive

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The LTM works closely with the

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Working memory

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How long is remembrance in the LTM?

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Stretches from memories from many many years ago and stuff that happened 30 seconds ago

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What are the types of coding for LTM?

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Visual and auditory but mostly SEMANTIC, etc.

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Recognition memory

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Identification of previously encountered stimuli

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What did Sachs determine about LTM?

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Participants remember meaning over exact wording

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7
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Coding in LTM is mostly _______________**

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SEMANTIC CODING

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Neuropsychology

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Study of the behavior of people with brain damage

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How did HM locate memory in the brain?

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Removed the hippocampus

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How did removing the hippocampus effect memory?

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Retained STM but was unable to transfer to LTM

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How did KF locate memory in the brain?

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Studying people with damage in the parietal lobe

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How did damage in the parietal lobe effect memory?

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Impaired STM (digit span) but functional LTM; able to form and hold new memories

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Episodic memory

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Tied to personal experience; “time travels” to past memories; Self-knowing

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Semantic memory

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No “Time traveling”; Involves general knowledge and facts; knowing

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KC proved that damage to the _____________ caused a loss of _________ memories

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Hippocampus; episodic

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Italian woman proved

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sematic memory was not attached to the episodic memory

17
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The loss of comparing memory systems to other memory systems when one is damaged between TWO patients is

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a double dissociation

18
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Acquiring knowledge may being as an episodic memory but then fade to ________

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semantic

19
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Autobiographical language

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Specific experiences; includes semantic and episodic

20
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Personal semantic

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Semantic memories that have personal significance

21
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Semantic can be __________if associated with episodic

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enhanced

22
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Forgetting increases/decreases with long intervals after encoding

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increases

23
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Forgetting is not an “___________________” process

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All-Or-None

24
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A feeling of familiarity with something, but not recollection of it would be a

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Semantic memory

25
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A feeling of recollection of something, but not familiarity would be a

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Episodic memory

26
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Semanticization of remote memories

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Loss of episodic details for memories of long-ago events

27
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Procedural memory

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Skill memory; Riding a bike

28
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Priming

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Things we learn earlier can impact later behavior

29
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Conditioning

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Associations between UC stimulus and C stimulus that are in unconscious memory

30
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What are the two branches of the explicit (Conscious) memory?

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Semantic and episodic

31
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What are the three branches of implicit (unconscious) memory?

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Procedural, priming, and conditioning

32
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Repetition priming

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Test stimulus the same or similar to priming stimulus

33
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Korsakoff syndrome

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A progressive, debilitating disease that is from alcohol abuse and vitamin deficiency; causes memory impairments

34
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Warrington and Weiskrantz Korsakoff experiments

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Showed fragmented pictures, patients had to identify what they thought the fragments were

35
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Propaganda effect

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More likely to rate statements read or heard before as being true

36
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What type of amnesia did Clive Wearing have?

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Anterograde and Retrograde Amnesia

37
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Anterograde amnesia

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Unable to form new memories after the accident

38
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What caused Clive Wearing’s amnesia?

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He woke up one day and had no prior memories and could not conceive future memories; autoimmune disorder

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