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What is confabulation?

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The invention of plausible and detailed false memories in response about personal life and public events to fill in memory gaps.

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What is memory?

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The process by which we take something we have observed (encountered) and convert it into a form we can store, retrieve and use.

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What are the processes of memory?

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  1. Encoding
  2. Storage
  3. Retrieval
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What are representational modes?

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They are like languages that permit conversation with the mind.

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What is a mental representation?

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A mental model of a stimulus or category of stimuli,

  1. Sensory representations
  2. Verbal representations
  3. Motoric representations
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What is a sensory register?

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Hold information about a perceived stimulus for a fraction of a second after the stimulus disappears.

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What are two types of sensory register?

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  1. Iconic storage

2. Echoic storage

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What is Iconic storage?

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Momentary storage of visual information

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What is Echoic storage?

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Momentary storage of auditory information.

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What is Short-term memory?

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Holds a small amount of information (limited capacity of approximately 7 items) for a short period of time (limited duration of approximately 20-30 seconds).

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How can you keep information in STM longer?

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Rehearsal / Elaborative rehearsal (Thinking about the information whilst rehearsing.

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What is Long-term memory?

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The representations of facts, images, actions and skills that may persist over a lifetime (potentially limitless duration).

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What is the process of extracting information from the LTM?

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Retrieval.

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What is the best way to keep information in the LTM?

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Keep it in the STM for as long as possible.

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What is the Serial Position Effect?

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The tendency to remember information at the beginning and end of a list rather than in the middle.

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What are ways in which thinking about memory has no evolved?

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  1. No longer a serial processing model.
  2. Memory is now thought of to be a number of modules which are discreet but interdependent.
  3. Remembering is not always conscious and retroactive.
  4. Not thought of as a computer.
  5. LTM must engage before STM.
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What is working memory?

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The temporary storage and processing of information.

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What is working memory used to do?

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  1. Solve problems
  2. Respond to environmental demands
  3. Achieve goals.
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Working memory is comprised of what three memory systems?

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  1. Central executive (flow and processing of information)
  2. Visual memory store (visual sketchpad)
  3. Verbal memory store (phonological loop).
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What are two separate aspects of working memory?

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  1. Storage capacity

2. Processing capacity.

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What neural region is thought to control working memory?

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The prefrontal cortex

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What is a LTM deficit?

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Person shows normal working memory though cannot transfer information to LTM

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What is working memory deficit?.

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Person has a memory span of 2 digits though normal LTM.

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How should working memory be viewed?

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As a conscious workspace for accomplishing goals rather than a way station or gateway to LTM.

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How are LTM and Working memory related?

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Working memory activates knowledge from the LTM.

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What is chunking?

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The use of knowledge from LTM to increase the capacity of working memory - The grouping of information into larger units rather than single units or digits.

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What is declarative memory?

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Memory for facts and events, much of which can be tested or declared. Two components

  1. Semantic of generic
  2. Episodic
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What is semantic memory?

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Generic memory for general world knowledge

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What is episodic memory?

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Consists of memories of particular events rather than general knowledge. Often autobiographical.

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What is procedural memory?

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The ‘how to’ knowledge of procedures or skills. Often occurs without conscious effort.

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What are the two ways people express knowledge?

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  1. Explicit memory.

2. Implicit memory.

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What is explicit memory?

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Memory that is expressed through conscious recollection. The conscious retrieval of information.

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What are the two components to explicit memory?

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  1. Recall - spontaneous recollection of information from the LTM.
  2. Recognition - The identification of something previously seen or heard.
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What is implicit memory?

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Memory that is expressed in behavior but does not require conscious recollection.

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What neural regions are involved in the consolidation of explicit memories?

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The hippocampus and adjacent regions of the cortex.

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What are the two components of everyday memory?

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  1. Retrospective memory

2. Prospective memory

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What is retrospective memory?

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memory of things from the past.

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What is prospective memory?

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Memory for things that need to be done in the future.
Remembering to remember
Remembering what to remember.

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What is encoding?

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The storage of information in LTM requires that it be cast into a representational form. The type and level of encoding influences the accessibility of information.

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What are the two levels of LTM processing?

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  1. Shallow processing

2. Deep processing

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What is shallow processing?

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Focus on the physical characteristics of the stimulus.

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What is deep processing?

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Focus on the meaning of the stimulus.

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What is context dependent memory?

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Information is easier to recall when it is encoded and retrieved in the same context.

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What is Mood (state) congruent memory?

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Information is easier to recall when it is encoded and retrieved in the same emotional state.

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What is the encoding specificity principle?

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Ease of retrieval depends on the match between the way information is encoded and later retrieved.

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What is the spacing effect?

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Superiority of memory for information rehearsed over .longer intervals.

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What is the best way to encode and retrieve information?

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To store memory in multiple representational modes such as words, images and sounds.

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Explain how pieces of information stored in memory for networks of association.

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LTM is organized in clusters of information that are related in meaning.

  1. The network is comprised of interconnected nodes.
  2. A node may contain thoughts, images, smells, emotions or any other information.
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What is spreading activation theory?

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Activating one node in a network triggers activation in closely related nodes.

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How are both encoding and retrieval of information affected by schemas?

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When confronted with a novel event people match it against schemas stored in memory.

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What is a schema?

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Patterns of thought, or organized knowledge structures that render the environment relatively predictable.

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How do schemas affect the way people remember.

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  1. By influencing the way information is encoded.

2. By shaping the way information is reconstructed.

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What are the seven sins of memory described by Daniel Schacter?

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  1. Transience: memories fade with time
  2. Absent-mindedness
  3. Misattribution: source amnesia
  4. Suggestibility: thinking we remember
  5. Bias: distortions in recall
  6. Persistence: recurring memories
  7. Forgetting: inability to remember.
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How is memory subject to errors and bias’?

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Memory can be primed

Memory is altered by emotional factors.

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What is Flashbulb memory?

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Vivid memories of exciting or highly consequential events.

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Why are Flashbulb memories unreliable?

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They often provide a snapshot or clarity that can be inaccurate or even entirely wrong.

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What are three theory’s of forgetting?

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  1. Decay theory
  2. Interference theory - conflict between new and old.
  3. Motivated forgetting.
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Why is it difficult to address the issue of false memories of childhood trauma?

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It is almost impossible to distinguish between false and recovered memories.

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What is anterograde amnesia? And what causes it?

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Involves the inability to retain new memories, usually caused by damage to the temporal lobe particularly the hippocampus and subcortical region.

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What is retrograde amnesia? And what causes it?

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Involves loosing memories from before the time that the persons brain was damaged.
Tumors, strokes, ECT.

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