Memory Flashcards

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Memory

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Any indication that learning has persisted overtime

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Recall

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Being able to access information without being cute

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Recognition

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Identifying information after experiencing it again

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Relearning

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The process where we learn some thing for the second time

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Information processing model of memory

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motto of memory compares are mine to a computer in a series of three stages which are in coding automatic and effortful

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Encoding

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The process of putting information into the memory system

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Automatic

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Automatic and coding of details like times face frequency meaning of words

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Effortful

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Encoding that requires attention and conscious effort

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Storage

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The creation of a permanent record of the encoded information

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Retrieval

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The Kong back of stored information on demand when it is needed

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Parallel processing

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The brains ability to make sense of several different incoming stimuli at the same time

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Ackinson’s Shiffrin three stage model of memory

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Three different memory systems characterized by time frames

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Sensory memory

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External stimuli from our senses are how just long enough to be received

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Iconic memory

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sensory input creates a fleeting photographic visual image

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Echoinc memory

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1 to 5 second auditory recording

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Short term or working memory

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The information we are currently aware of or thinking about

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Long term memory

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All memories we hold for periods of time longer than a few seconds

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Explicit memory

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Information that you have to consciously work to remember

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Semantic memory

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These are memories a fax concepts names and other general knowledge

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Episodic memory

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Long-term memory involves recollection of specific events

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Implicit memory

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information that you remember unconsciously and effortlessly 

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Procedural memory

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How to perform a specific task you don’t have to consciously recall how to perform these tasks

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Flashbulb memory

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Vivid and do some memories the people create during times of personal tragedy accident or emotionally significant world events

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Rosie retrospection

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working memory tends to delete the moon Dane or boring and only store the interesting into long-term memory

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Context dependent memory

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Is your refill of information while in the same context of the environment where it was acquired

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State dependent memory

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memories that are triggered by mood when memory was made in the same mood

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Memory consolidation

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Process where I bring convert short term memory into a long-term ones

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Long term potentiation

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Strengthening of a synaptic connections through repeated no action

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Storage decay

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More time that goes by the less we remember

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Trace decay theory

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Overtime I memories biologically degenerate

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Retrograde amnesia

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cannot remember things that happen before they got amnesia

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anterograde amnesia

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Cannot create new memories

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Serial position effect

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when retrieving a long list we remember first and last better

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Primacy effect

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Refers to better recall a first items

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Recency effect

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Better recall of last items

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Retrieval failure

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The failure to recall memory due to missing simulator cues that were present at the time the memory was in coded to help triggered a memory

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Tip of the tongue state

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The feeling that I memories available but not retrievable a

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Encoding failure

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Occurs when a memory was never formed in the first place

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Interference theory

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Some memories interfere with the retrieval of other memories for getting in long-term memory

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Proactive interference

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older memories interfere with the retrieval of newer memories

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Retro active interference

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New remembers interfere with the retrieval of older memories

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Memory reconstruction

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Approach to understanding memory as a cognitive process

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Pseudo memories

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False memories that a person believes to be true

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Elizabeth Loftis and the problem with eyewitness testimony

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Believe bias and suggestibility create the miss information effect

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Distribute practice

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Strategy of learning that makes use of smaller increments of study and practice over a long time

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Rehearsal

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Practice or repetition of studying increase his long-term potentiation

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The testing affect

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Studying technique that focuses you to use recall

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Retrieval cues

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Reminders associated with information we are trying to get out of the memory

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Sensory associations

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Sites sounds smells and taste

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Context affect

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Easier to retrieve memories in the environment in which they were in coated

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Chunking

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Process of taking individual pieces of information and grouping them into larger units