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 Sensory memory

A

Remembering some thing briefly

ex. Asking a Student what you just said and they can give you an answer

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Self reference affect

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remember things better when you relate it to yourself

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Spacing

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studying a little group at a time

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deep processing

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coming up with deeper meanings to remember things

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Mnemonics

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Hooks people used to remember things

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Peg word

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hang a memory on an image

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Chunking

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Type of pneumonic

Chunking things together like a phone number

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Implicit memory

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muscle memory

ex. Learning how to ride a bike

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Explicit memory

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knowing stuff (knowledge)

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Automatic processing

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Remembering some thing without trying to remember

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Effortful processing

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trying to remember something

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Procedural memory

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Routine/knowing things in steps

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encoding

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getting things through each part of memory

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decay

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Forgetting

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Priming

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things that spur your memory

ex. music/smell

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Flashbulb memories

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Highly emotional memories

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Interference

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getting in the way of learning something accurately

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Proactive

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—> Old messing up new

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Retroactive

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<— New messing up old

ex. You’ve known German your whole life but you just learn French and when speaking German you add French words

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shallow processing

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Kind of processing but not really

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Cerebellum

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Helps with implicit memory

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Hippocampus

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Takes memory from short-term to long-term

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Overlearning

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Going over so much that you really know it

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anterograde amnesia

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no new memories after accident

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Retrograde amnesia

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Loss of all memories

26
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Short term stress’s affect on memory

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Enhances memory

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Long-term stress’s affect on memory

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Causes hippocampus to shrink

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Iconic memory

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sensory memory with sight

ex. Hear or see is in there briefly

29
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Where are explicit memories and the brain?

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Throughout cerebral arteries

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Amygdala

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  • Part of the brain that makes you feel strong emotion

- Next hippocampus so that’s why you associate emotions with memories

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Recognition

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When you see something you recognize

ex. mult choice on test

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Recall

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when you have to recall a memory you need to encode it better

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Source miss attribution/source amnesia

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Forgetting where you learn some thing

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Tip of the tongue phenomenon

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When somethings on the tip of your tongue – retrieval issue

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Next in line effect

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Not listening to the person ahead of you because you know you’re next

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Serial position effect

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learn the first and last parts of a sequence best

ex. activity in class

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Types of encoding

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  • Visual
  • Acoustic – sound
  • Semantic– Story behind it
38
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Herman Ebbinghaus

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studied memory and how fast he forgot things

39
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long-term potentiation 

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reacting to some thing because you associate that with something that causes a reaction
ex. snail experiment 

40
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Cerebral cortex

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Where memories are stored

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Rosie retrospection

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Remembering good things better than bad

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Neurotransmitter

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A messenger that transports info through the brain

43
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acetylcholine

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The neurotransmitter associated with memories

44
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Mood congruency

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Remembering happy things when you’re happy and sad things when you’re sad

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Place congruency

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remembering things about a place when you are there 

46
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Freud

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Came up with how people try to forget things (repression)

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repression

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Motivated forgetting

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method of loci

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putting things in a place

ex. Remembering talking about a topic when you are where you talked about that topic

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Episodic memory

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remembering what you have done through the day

50
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Recency effect

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Remembering things that happen recently

ex. And saying that the greatest football player of all time is someone you’ve seen play recently

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context dependent memory

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remember things better in the context of where you learned it

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primacy

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the first part of a sequence

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recency

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the last part of a sequence

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