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Memory Flashcards

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Encoding

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getting info into our brain

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storage

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retaining encoded information

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retreival

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getting stored info back out

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sensory memory

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memory of the 5 external senses .5-4 seconds

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short term memory

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current, conscious awareness 10-30 seconds

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working memory

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all of the components in visual working simultaneously

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long term memory

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relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of memory

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selective attention

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giving full attention to a stimulus

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divided attention

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splitting attention between 2 or more stimuli

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automatic processing

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unconscious encoding of info

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effortful processing

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encoding that requires attention and conscious effort

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maintenance rehearsal

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repeating an item to maintain in STM and subsequently forget

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elaborative rehearsal

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relating items to memories already in LTM

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massed practice

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cramming

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distributed practice

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learning where practice is broken up into short sessions over a longer period of time

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primacy effect

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remembering what came first

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serial position effect

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our tendency to recall the first and last items in a list but not the middle

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recency effect

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remembering what came last

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structural/visual

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encoding only the physical qualities of something

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20
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phenomic/acoustic

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encoding what the word sounds like

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semantic encoding

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apply meaning to a new word

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self reference

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relating new info to ourselves or our own expreiences

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shallow processing

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structual/ visual
phenomic/acoustic

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deep processing

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semantic
self reference

25
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interleaving

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mixing different topics or forms of practice in order to facilitate learning

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imagery

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mental pictures

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chunking

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distributed practice

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rhyming

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using rhyming to remember

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method of loci

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uses visualizations with spatial memory, familiar to info about one’s environment to quickly recall info

30
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iconic memory

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visual
fraction of a second

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haptic memory

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tactile
2 secs

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echoic memory

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sound
2-4 secs

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flashbulb memories

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vivid memories
emotional

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long term potentiation

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every time a memory is consolidated

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LTM in

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hippocampus

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LTM stored in

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temporal lobe

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epsiodic

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recall of personal experiences or events in one’s life

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sematic

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factual recollection

39
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procedural memories

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how-to memories

40
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prospective memory

A

remembering to do something later

41
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retrospective memory

A

memories of past events

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recall

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mental process of retreival of info from the past

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recognition

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ability to recognize previously encountered events objects or people

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conetxt dependent memory

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best remember things in same time/place you learned them

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state dependent memory

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best remember if you’re in the same level of consciousness

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mood congruent memory

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best remember if in the same mood

47
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encoding failure

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dont remember what you dont pay attention to

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storage decay

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theory that LTM fade away after time

49
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tip of the tongue phenomenon

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when you are about to retrieve something but it is not fully retreived

50
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proactive interference

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old info blocks recall of new, similar info

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retroactive interference

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new info blocks recall of old info

52
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elizabeth loftus

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misinformation effect

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misinformation effect

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she changed the wording of the question to change their memory of the event

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constructive memory

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notion that we use a variety of info to fill in missing gaps of episodic memories and accuracy of episodic memories and accuracy of episodic may be affected

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source misattribution

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cant remember where you learned something

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source/reality monitoring

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mental test to determine if a memory is real

57
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infantile amnesia

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inability of adults to retrieve episodic memory before 5/kindergarten

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retrograde amnesia

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loss of memories of events that occurred before the onset of amnesia

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