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Memory Flashcards

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1
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What are the 3 key memory processes?

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Encoding, Storage, Retrieval

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What are the 3 major stages of memory?

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Sensory Memory
Short Term Memory
Long Term Memory

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What are the 3 factors the 3 stages of memory differ in?

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Capacity
Duration
Function

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What are the 2 types of working memory?

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Iconic memory - visual information
Echoic Memory - auditory information

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What are the 3 components of STM?

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Central Executive : “attention”

Phonological Loop : holds information in a speech -based form

Visio-spatial sketchpad : specialised for holding visual and spatial information

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What is the function of working memory?

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Conscious processing of information

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What is the definition of chunking?

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Grouping small bits of information into larger units of information

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What is the function of long term memory ?

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Organises and stores information

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What is the capacity of long term memory?

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Unlimited

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What is the definition of encoding?

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Process that controls movement from working (STM) memory to long term memory storage

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What is the definition of the Primacy-Regency Effect or Serial Position Effect?

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When presented with lots of information in serial order, we remember more from the beginning and end of the list, at the expense of intermediate items

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What is the definition of consolidation?

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Storage into long-term memory.
Involves structural change : the pattern of neural pathways are changed

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What are the 2 types of interferences in Working Memory?

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Retroactive interference
Proactive interference

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What is the definition of retroactive interference?

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New information interferes with the retention of old information in working memory.

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What is the definition of proactive interference?

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Old information interferes with the recall of new information

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What are the factors affecting retrieval?

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Levels of processing - the more something is elaborated at time of encoding, the easier it will be retrieve

Organisation

Context - being in the same place/emotional state as the time of encoding facilitates recall.

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What are the 5 types of long term memory?

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Episodic memory
Semantic memory
Declarative
Procedural
Prospective

18
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What is episodic memory?

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AKA autobiographical
Stores every fact/event that you have been involved in.

19
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What is semantic memory?

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Memory of facts about the world
eg - this is a pc, this is a desk

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What is declarative memory?

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AKA explicit memory
Memory of facts and events and refers to those memories that can be consciously recalled

21
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What is procedural memory?

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Memory of procedures
eg - driving a car

22
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What is prospective memory?

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Memory for the things to do in the future
eg - buy milk after I leave this lecture

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