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Sensory memory- ionic

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Visual

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Sensory memory- echoic

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Auditory

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Digit span

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Capacity of short term memory (7 +/- 2 items)

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Short term memory

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  • Limited capacity (digit span)
  • Takes in from sensory and long-term memories
  • Persists as long as it is rehearsed (rehearsal determines what stays
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Chunking

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  • Breaking down long strings of information into smaller, more manageable chunks
  • Increases effective capacity of short term memory
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Long term memory

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  • Fed by short term memory
  • Virtually unlimited in capacity and duration
  • Getting into LTM takes effort
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Encoding, storage, and retrieval

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  • All part of memory process

Encoding: process used to store information in memory

Storage: process used to maintain information in memory

Retrieval: process used to get information back out of memory

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Recall vs. recognition tasks

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Recall: you have to generate an answer
Recognition: you don’t need to generate an answer

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Free recall

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“Recall all the words you can from the list you just saw”

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Serial recall

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“Recall the names of all previous presidents in the order they were elected” (need to recall order as well as items)

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Cued recall

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Give participants some clue to trigger recall

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Implicit vs. explicit memory tasks

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Explicit: involves conscious recollection (participant knows they are trying to retrieve information from their memory)

Implicit

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Bahrick’s rules of very long term memory (permastore)

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  • High school yearbooks contained all names and photos of students was used to assess memory
  • ~400 ex-high school students took four memory tests (free name recall, photo and name recognition, and name and photo matching)
  • most accurate in face and name recognition after 34 years and up to 48 years
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Levels of processing theory (deep vs. shallow processing)

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Deep: encoding information based on meaning or associations with other knowledge
Shallow: encoding based on sensory characteristics (appearance or sound)

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Morris study

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Two processing tasks: semantic vs. rhyme

Semantic: “the (train/apple) had a silver engine”- standard recognition test
Rhyming: “(eagle/chair) rhymes with legal”- rhyme recognition test

*Memory performance also depends on the match between encoding processes and type of test

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Serial position effect

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Tendency to remember the first and last names in a series better than those in the middle

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Primary vs. recency effects

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Primary: we tend to remember the first items in a series better

Recency effect: we tend to remember the last names in a series better

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Working memory

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The system(s) involved in the TEMPORARY storage of information for cognitive skills (reading, comprehension, learning)

  1. central executive: focuses attention on relevant items, plans sequence of tasks, supervises attention, plans/coordinates, monitors mental activity
  2. phonological loop: maintains auditory and verbal information for short time (language or music info)
  3. visuospatial sketchpad: dual-task paradigm, temporarily stores info on how things look and allows us to manipulate images in our mind
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Brooks interference study

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One group saw block diagram of letter, memorized it, asked to mentally travel letter and indicate if the corner was on the extreme top or bottom

Second group saw a sentence, memorized it, and were asked to classify each word as a noun verbally

  • Participants were much better at the task when they could verbally indicate the type of corner than when they had to point
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Mnemonist

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Using patterns, ideas, or associations to assist in remembering something (All Cows Eat Grass)

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Sensory synthesia

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People have unusual, and usually involuntary associations between different sensory experiences

Different types of synesthesia depending on the combination of senses/representation
Days, numbers, and months of the year evoke different personalities
Letters or numbers are perceived as inherently colored

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Penny example: failures of memory

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We cannot remember what we fail to encode

  • Use pennies all the time but have never encoded the exact format of one
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Ebbinghaus forgetting curve

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more recent you learn something, the more retention/recall ability; less recent, less retention/recall ability

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Savings Method (Relearning)

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Way of measuring retention by measuring how much faster one relearns material that has been previously relearned and forgotten

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Spacing Effect

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Ebbinghaus

Studying the same material 1 hour each time for three evenings (distributed) is best

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Organization

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Organizing learning makes it easier to remember

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Context and state dependent memory

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Context: external, environmental factors (better recall when learning and testing contexts are the same)
State: internal, physiological factors, mood (recall is improved if internal physiological or emotional state is the same during testing and initial encoding)

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Mood congruent memory

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  • Kind of state dependent memory
  • The phenomenon where our memories are influenced by our current emotional state
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Baddeley scuba diving memory study

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  • Importance of setting for retrieval
  • Baddeley asked 18 deep-sea divers to memorize a list of 36 unrelated words of two or three syllables.
  • One group did this on the beach and the other group underwater.
  • Lists learned underwater were best recalled underwater, and v.v.
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Encoding specificity

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Our ability to remember a stimulus depends on the similarity between the way a stimulus is tested at encoding and the way it is processed when tested

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Nelson study of “lost” memories

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Study showed that when you forget something, it isn’t gone forever.

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Proactive vs. retroactive interference

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Proactive (old affects new): old memories interfere with the recall of new information (new bank account and want to use PIN but accidentally enter old one)

Retroactive (new affects old): new memories interfere with the recall of older information (learn new card game, mix up rules to old card game)

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Explicit vs. implicit memory

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Explicit: conscious recollection (declarative knowledge)
Implicit: unconscious recollection, includes procedural knowledge

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Procedural vs. declarative memory

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Procedural: knowing how to do something (ride a bike, ski)

Declarative: memory for facts or events

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Anterograde vs. retrograde amnesia

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Anterograde: inability to learn new explicit information after trauma (Ex: Memento)

Retrograde: inability to retrieve explicit information learned prior to trauma

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Patient HM and Clive Wearing

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  • Patient HM had surgery to stop his seizures
  • Surgery worked but he was left with permanent amnesia
  • Could remember things from his childhood and before the surgery, but unable to form new memories
  • Pointed to a structure that was necessary for normal memory: hippocampus
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Mirror image reading study

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Mirroring behavior is a subconscious way our brains establish rapport and build connections with others

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Hippocampus and memory consolidation

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  • Part of the Limbic System
  • Memories not stored permanently here
  • Critical for initial encoding
  • Once memories are consolidated, they are stored in cortex
  • Meant for retrieval of recent memories
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Amygdala

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  • Part of the Limbic System
  • Processing emotions, particularly fear, anger, and aggression
  • Adjacent to the hippocampus
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Flashbulb memories

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Exceptionally clear memories of emotionally significant events

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Priming

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Exposure to one stimulus influences how a person responds to a subsequent, related stimulus.

Ex: exposing someone to the word “yellow” will evoke a faster response to the word “banana” than unrelated words like “TV”

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Memory construction

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  • Explicitly or implicitly, process of forming new memories. As we retrieve our memories, we tend to alter/modify them
  • Bringing up old memories is called reconstruction
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Misinformation effect (Loftus)

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  • Tendency for the information you learned after an event to interfere with your original memory of what happened
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Implanting false memories

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  • Implanting plausible but false memories are more likely to be believed
  • Repetition of the false information make it more believable
  • Some individuals appear to be more susceptible
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Childhood (infantile) amnesia

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Inability of adults to recall events and experiences before the age of 3-4 years

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