Memory Flashcards

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Alzheimer?s disease

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a neurodegenerative disease that involves the progressive loss of neurons in the brain and is characterised by memory decline p. 219

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Amygdala

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a brain structure involved in encoding and consolidating emotionally charged memories p. 205

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Amyloid plaques

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fragments of the protein beta-amyloid that accumulate into insoluble plaques that inhibit communication between neurons p. 220

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Anterograde amnesia

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a condition where new explicit memories cannot be effectively consolidated after trauma to the hippocampus p. 219

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Atkinson-Shiffrin multi-store model of memory

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a model of memory which outlines the flow of information in memory formation and retrieval through three separate stores of memory; sensory, short-term and long-term, each of which have a different function, capacity and duration p. 195

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Classically conditioned memory

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a type of implicit memory which involves an involuntary response, such as fear, to a stimulus which has repeatedly been associated with an emotionally arousing stimulus p. 204

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Context dependent cues

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stimuli in the physical environment where a memory is recalled that act as a prompt to retrieve memories formed in that environment p. 224

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Cued recall

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retrieving information from memory with the use of a prompt p. 231

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Echoic memory

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a type of sensory memory which temporarily stores auditory information p. 195

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Elaborative rehearsal

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encoding new information by meaningfully linking it to information already stored in long-term memory to enhance its storage and later retrieval p. 225

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Encoding

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the process of converting raw information from stimuli into a useable form which can be stored in the brain p. 195

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Episodic memory

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a type of explicit memory which involves a personal experience or event p. 203

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Explicit memory

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(also known as declarative memory) a type of long-term memory that can be consciously retrieved p. 203

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Eye-witness testimony

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an account given by an individual of an event they have directly observed p. 237

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Free recall

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retrieving information from memory in any order without the use of a prompt p. 231

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Hippocampus

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a brain structure which encodes explicit memories p. 205

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Iconic memory

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a type of sensory memory which temporarily stores visual information p. 195

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Implicit memory

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(also known as non-declarative memory) a type of long-term memory that is retrieved unconsciously p. 203

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Leading questions

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questions that contain information that imply or prompt a certain response p. 237

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Long-term memory

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store of memory in which a potentially unlimited amount of information is stored for a relatively permanent amount of time p. 197

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Maintenance rehearsal

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repeating new information over and over again to functionally enhance the duration of short-term memory and transfer information to long-term memory p. 225

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Memory

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the process of encoding, storing and retrieving learned information p. 195

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Neurofibrillary tangles

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an accumulation of the protein tau that forms insoluble tangles within neurons, which then inhibit the transport of essential substances throughout the neuron, eventually killing the neuron entirely p. 220

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Primacy effect

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enhanced recall of information presented at the beginning of a list due to this information being rehearsed and transferred into long term memory p. 226

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Procedural memory

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a type of implicit memory which involves knowing how to carry out tasks, facilitated by motor skills p. 203

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Recall

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a method of retrieving information from memory p. 231

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Recency effect

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enhanced recall of information presented at the end of a list due to this information remaining in short term memory p. 226

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Recognition

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identifying information from memory amongst a list of alternatives p. 232

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Reconstruction

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the process of reproducing and piecing together information from memory in an attempt to form a coherent representation of a past event or stimuli p. 233

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Retention

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the second stage of observational learning. The learner must create a mental representation and remember (retain) the behaviour the model has demonstrated p. 180

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Retrieval

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accessing information which has previously been stored in the brain p. 195

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Retrieval cue

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stimuli that act as a prompt to access information from long-term memory p. 224

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Semantic memory

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a type of explicit memory which consists of general knowledge or facts p. 203

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Sensory memory

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store of memory which very briefly stores raw information detected by the senses such as sight, hearing and touch p. 195

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Serial position effect

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a tendency for free recall to be superior for items at the end and beginning of a list compared to items in the middle p. 226

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Serial recall

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retrieving information from memory in the order in which it was first encoded p. 231

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Short-term memory

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(also known as working memory) store of memory which holds information that is consciously being attended to and actively manipulated p. 196

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State dependent cues

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aspects of an individual?s psychological and physiological experience at the time a memory was formed that later act as a prompt to retrieve that memory p. 224

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Storage

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retaining converted information so it can be accessed and used in the future p. 195