Memory Flashcards

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4 contributors to Memory Development

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  1. Strategies
  2. Knowledge (expertise)
  3. Metamemory
  4. Capacity
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Types of Long-Term Memory

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Explicit

Implicit

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Explicit memory is ______. It has two parts, ______ and _______

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Conscious, Episodic, Semantic

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Implicit memory is _________. There are three parts, _______, ________ _______, and ________.

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Unconscious, priming, procedural memory and conditioning

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The constructive process involving the coding, storage, and retrieval of information

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Memory

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The three types of memory are _____, ______-______, and ______-_______

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Sensory, short-term, long-term

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Information decays very quickly

Capacity is larger than STM but smaller than LTM

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Sensory Memory

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Duration and capacity unknown

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Long Term Memory

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Duration is 15-20 seconds
Similar capacity to sensory memory
Includes working memory

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Short Duration Memory

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Causes of strategy production deficiency

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  • May not be aware of need for strategy
  • May feel strategy is too effortful
  • May not have learned it is beneficial
  • May not be sufficiently developed (production inefficiency)
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Effective strategies not proficient enough for productive use

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Utilization Deficiency

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Organizational Strategies

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Chunking or clustering
Semantic categories
Associations
External organizational structures and tools

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Elaboration

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Meaningful connections
Imagery
Context

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Memory = what actually happens + person’s ________, _______, and _______

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knowledge, experience, expectations

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Age matters a lot in previous examples, but not always

Organization of knowledge is important (quantity and quality of knowledge matters)

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Expertise

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Make inferences and interpretations
Transition from verbatim (poor) recall to “gist”
Influence of scripts and schemas

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Constructive Memory

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Knowledge about what memory is, how it works, and what influences it’s functioning

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Metamemory

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Memory span used as an indicator of processing capacity
Speed of processing is key
Experience (domain-specific)

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Memory Capacity

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Current Issues:

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Variability
Domain Specificity
Sociocultural Influences
Multiple Causes
Cognitive Neuroscience