Memory

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Encoding

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Getting info into the system by translating it into neural code that your brain processes

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Storage

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Retaining information over time

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Retrieval

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Processes that access stored info

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Serial position effect

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Being able to recall things from the beginning of a list and things from the end of a lift.

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Method of loci

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Memory palace

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Episodic memory

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Memory of autobiographical events. (Past personal experience, first time riding a car).

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Semantic memory

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Long term memory that processes ideas and concepts that are not drawn from personal experiences. Eg. Common knowledge

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Explicit memory

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Conscious, intentional recollection of previous experiences and information.

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Proactive interference

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learning a list of information and when remembering the later part of the list, am earlier memorized part of the list gets in the way.

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Retroactive interference

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Occurs when newly acquired information causes us to have trouble remembering old information.

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Retrograde amnesia

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Can’t remember things prior to head injury.

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Anteretrograde amnesia

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Loss of memory for events after an incident

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Boundary extensions

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Remembering a scene as more expansive than it really was

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Flashbulb memory

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A detailed and vivid memory that is stored on one occasion and retained for a lifetime. Most likely memories associated with important historical or autobiographical events.

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Iconic store

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Visual sensory register

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Echoic store

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Auditory sensory register

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Working memory

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A limited capacity system that temporarily stores and processes information.

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Phonological loop

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Briefly stores representations of sound

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Episodic buffer

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Provides a temporary storage space where info from long term memory and from phonological/visual spatial subsystems an be integrated, manipulated and made available for conscious awareness.

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Effortful processing

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Encoding that is initiated intentionally and requires conscious attention. Eg. Dates, names, lecture content.

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Automatic processing

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Encoding that occurs without the attention and needs minimal attention

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Schemas

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A mental framework. An organized pattern of thought about some aspect of the world.

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Mnemonist

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A Mersin who displays extraordinary memory skills

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Exceptional memory

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A highly learnt skill that involves prior knowledge, meaningful associations, efficient storage and retrieval, and extensive practice rather than innate ability.

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Procedural memory (non declarative)

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Memory is reflected in skills and actions. Eg. Riding a bike.

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Implicit memory

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When memory influences our behavior without conscious awareness.

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Context-dependent memory

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It is easier to remember something in the same environment in which it was encoded.

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State-dependent memory

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Our ability to retrieve information is greater when our internal state at the time matches our original state during learning.

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Mood-congruent recall

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We tend to recall information or events that are congruent with our current mood.

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Reminiscence

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When you are tested at two different times and the second time you are tested you remember things that you never remembered when being tested the first time.

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Individualistic lens

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People living in Europe and N America view the world through an individualistic point of view where self-identities is based primarily on ones personal identity

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Collectivistic framework

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People living in Asia, Africa and South America describe the world with links to family members or other social groups

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Declarative memory

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Episodic and semantic memory

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Things that are heard are held as a brief __________ in the sensory register

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icon

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memories outside of conscious awareness are called

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implicit memories

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__________ concentrates on the meaning of information you want to remember.

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elaborative rehearsal

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Memories of historical facts are to __________ memory, as memories of your breakfast this morning are to __________ memory.

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semantic, episodic

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An intelligence test for adults frequently has a general knowledge section which tests for

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semantic memory

Question 39

A mail clerk has to rearrange mailboxes in a student dormitory and for a few days has difficulty sorting the mail. This illustrates

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proactive interference

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procedural memory would be affected by damage to the

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cerebellum

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_________ memory is that part of long-term memory containing factual information.

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declarative

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When new learning disrupts the ability to recall past, stored information, __________

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retroactive interference

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An expert typist who cannot describe the exact location of letters on a typewriter keyboard is demonstrating the importance of

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implicit

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__________ memory is that part of long-term memory made up of conditioned responses and learned skills

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skill memory

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A brain-injured patient who can still execute a perfect golf swing or a high dive but is unable to recall or relearn even the broad outlines of American history is superior in

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procedural memory