Memory Flashcards

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Encoding

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the conversion of information into a useable form so it can neuroogically stored in meory

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Rehearsal

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Consolidation

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the neurobiological process of making newly from memory

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Retrieval

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the recovery of stored information and bringing ito conscious awareness for use

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Storage

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Sensory memory

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the entry point of memory where all sensory memory information is detctedfrom the environment

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Short- term memory

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a system with limited storaged capaity where information is stored for a short time -

maintains information in conscious awareness

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Long term memory

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a memory that holds an unlimited amount of information for very long time (possibly permently)

Also explicit and implicit

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Implicit

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a long term memory that does not require conscious or intentional retrieval (memory without awareness)

E,g name, adresss

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Explicit

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long term mermoy that can be consciously retrived ( memory with awareness)

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Semantic

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long term explicit memory of facts and knowledge about the world

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Episodic memory

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long term explicit memory of peronally experienced events associated with particular time and place

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Procedural memory

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long term implicit memory of skills that have been learned previously

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Capacity

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the amount of information a memory storage system can hold

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Hippocampus

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a structure in the medial temporal, responsible fot formation, encoding and consilidation of new long term explicitly memories

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Duration

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the lenth of time or how long memeory storage system (long/short-term) can hold a memoery for

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Basal ganglia

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a group of struture deep within the brain, involved in generating voluntary movements and long term implicit memories involving motor skills

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Amygdala

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Involved in emotional reactions particulary fear and anger

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Neo Cortex

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largest and most evolved par of the brain’s cerebral cotext - invooved in higher cognotove fuctions such in language, attention

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Cerebellum

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structure at the base of the brain, invoved in coordination of muscle movements, cognitive process

  • formation of long term mototr skill memories
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Imagined future

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Imagining what the night occur in the futiure

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Alzheimer’s disease

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a disorder causing memeory decline and deterioration of cognitive and social skills and personalituy changes

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Aphantasia

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the abstence of visual imagery

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Acronym

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pronounceable words formed by it’s first letters

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Mnemonic

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any technque used to assist memeory (encoding, retrival and storage)

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Method of loci

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a mnemonic technique where the items to be remembeed are associated with specific locations of a familiar area

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Acrostic

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a peom that useses the first initial letters of a word to write out related/ describable words

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Ceebral

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