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Memory Flashcards

1
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Memories are perfect representations of past information

A

FALSE

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Storage

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Processes used to store and maintain information in memory

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Encoding

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Processes used to create the memory - what you are perceiving, seeing, hearing, feeling

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Retrieval

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Processes used to get information back out of memory

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Sensory memory…

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registers all or most information that hits our receptors. (collects it for short period of time)

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Iconic -

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visual sensory memory. Lasts about 1 second.

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Persistence of vision - (iconic memory)

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seeing sparklers trail of light. Being able to watch continuous frames (movies) as one thing.

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Echoic -

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Auditory sensory information.
Holds auditory information about 3-4 seconds to enable processing.

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Short-Term Memory (STM) can include…

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information recieved from sensory memory and information recalled from long term memory

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Short-Term Memory (STM) lasts…

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30 seconds,

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Magic number for STM is…

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7+/-2

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Working memory model…

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includes phonological loop, visuospatial sketch pad, and the central executive.

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13
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Working Memory is…

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ability to work with information in short term memory
(reading, decision making, problem-solving)

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Phonological loop…

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holds verbal and sound information, “voice” you hear when reading or repeating things in your head.

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Visuospatial sketchpad…

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holds visual and spatial information. Allows you to hold a mental image of what things looked like.

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Central executive…

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guides attention (focus, switch, or divide).
Suppresses irrelevant information.

17
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Long-term Memory

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Contains the explicit and implicit memory

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Explicit memory contains…

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episodic and semantic memories.

19
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Explicit memory is…

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conscious

20
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Implicit memory contains…

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priming and conditioning, and procedural memory

21
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Implicit memory is…

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non-conscious

22
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Semantic (Explicit memory)

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General factual knowledge (dates, geography, etc.)

23
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Episodic (Explicit memory)

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Personal events, you relive them in your mind

24
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Procedural Memory

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Memory for skills like riding a bike and playing piano.

25
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LTM creates _______________ to the neurons

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physical changes

26
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STM info is being stored entirely…

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chemically

27
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Synaptogenesis is…

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the process of creating new connections between neurons

28
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Forms of Amnesia…

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Retrograde, Anterograde, Korsakov’s syndrome

29
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Long-term potentiation

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Neurons remember which neurons activate them, this threshold of activation lowers after repeated stimulation
(less signals need to be sent, those neurons connect easier)

30
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Memory consolidation…

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is the process of converting recent memories into “permanent” memories

31
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Memory consolidation steps:

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Recent memory stored as connections between hippocampus and cortex, need hippocampus to retrieve memory, over time, memory held as connections in cortext, memory is “uploaded” to the cortex

32
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Anterograde Amnesia

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Inability to create new memories

33
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Retrograde Amnesia

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inability to recall old memories

34
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Korsakoff’s syndrome

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Causes both anterograde and retrograde amnesia

35
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Primacy Effects

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better memory for info at the begginning of a list

36
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Regency effects

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Better memory for info at the end of list (still in STM)

37
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Proactive interference

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Previously learned information interferes with learning new information (learning to drive on the other side of the road)

38
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Retroactive interference

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When new information interferes with ability to remember old information (new info replaces the old info)

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