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Memory Flashcards

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1
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The capacity to preserve and recover information

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memory

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how memories are formed

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encoding

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how memories are kept over time

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storage

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how memories are recovered (and translated into performance)

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retrieval

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How many distinct phases of memory are there?
(atkinson/shiffrin model)

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What are the 3 distinct phases of memory?
(atkinson/shiffrin model)

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Sensory memory
Working memory (STM)
Long-term memory (LTM)

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What was Phi phenomenon evidence for?

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evidence for sensory memory

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working memory is also called…

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short term memory

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Focused attention is typically associated with…

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short term memory

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10
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Long term memories can be either
__________ or ___________ retrieved:

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Consciously or Unconsciously

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Long term Memory:

general info, undated (things you know: 1st president, etc.)
Exp. Facts you are tested on in class are examples of semantic declarative memories (who was the first psychologist?)

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Sematic

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LTM:

episodes of your life, dated images, events; like
“re-living”, including emotions

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episodic

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How memories are formed

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Encoding

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How memories are kept over time

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storage

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15
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How memories are recovered (and translated into performance)

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Retrieval

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16
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Increase STM capacity by

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chunking

17
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To Increase Duration of STM:

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Maintenance Rehearsal

18
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From sensory to working/STM

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attention

19
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to maintain in working memory:

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maintenance rehearsal

20
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biggest reason we fail to retrieve something that is in LTM

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Interference

21
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Memories interfere with one another

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Interference

22
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forgetting due to physiological damage or trauma

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amnesia

23
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cannot make new memories

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anterograde

24
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loss of memories from prior to the trauma

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interograde

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