Memory Flashcards

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1
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What is memory?

A

Memory is the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information.

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How does information move from the sensory register to the short term memory?

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Attention

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3
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How does information move from the STM to the LTM?

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Maintenance rehearsal

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How does information move from the LTM to the STM?

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Retrieval

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Who created the multi-store model of memory?

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Atkinson and Shiffrin

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Describe all the different ways information can travel through the stores in the MSM (3)

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  1. Sensory register -> STM : attention
  2. STM -> LTM : maintenance rehearsal
  3. LTM -> STM : retrieval
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How does information enter the sensory register?

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Information from the environment enters the sensory register via our senses

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What is attention?

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This is the process by which information is moved from the sensory register to the STM by focusing on a stimulus.

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What is maintenance rehearsal?

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This is repeating information without thinking about its meaning to:
a) keep information in the STM for a while
b) transfer information to the LTM

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What is retrieval?

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The process of getting information out of storage to use

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What is decay?

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Losing information because you haven’t used it enough

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What is displacement?

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Losing information because there is already too much in that memory store.

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13
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How does the sensory register encode information?

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There are 5 mini sub-stores that process different types of sensory information
1. Iconic store - information from your eyes is stored as imagines
2. Echo if store - information from your ears is stored as sounds
3. Haptic store - information from your skin is stored as feelings
4. Gustatory store - information from the tongue is stored as taste
5. Olfactory store - information from the nose is stored as smells

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