Memory Flashcards

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Storage

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Info kept within our memory until it is needed again

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Retrieval

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Ability to recover info which has been stored

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Duration

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How long info can stay within a memory store

Can be from seconds to a life time

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Capacity

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How much info can be stored within a memory store

Can be from a few items to unlimited

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Multi-store

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The idea info passes through a series of memory stores

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Acoustic

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Encoding info in terms of how it sounds

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Semantic

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Encoding info in terms of what it means

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Rehearsal

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A technique used to move info from one store in the multi-store explanation to the next

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Sensory memory

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Amount of info which can be held is very limited, held very brief for a few seconds

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Short term memory

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This store holds 7 chunks of information for less than a minute if not rehearsed

Info encoded acoustically

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Long term memory

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Can hold a vast amount of info for a very long time

Encoded by meaning

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Multi-store model of memory

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Sensory 
{acoustic encoding}
Short term 
{semantic encoding}
Long term
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Recency effect

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Info received later is recalled better than earlier info

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Primacy effect

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First info received is recalled better than subsequent info

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Levels of processing

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The depth at which info is thought about when trying to learn it

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Structural processing

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Thinking about physical appearance of words to be learnt

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Phonetic processing

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Thinking about sounds of words to be learnt

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Semantic processing

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Thinking about meaning of words to be learnt

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Encoding

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The way info is changed into a code so it can be remembered

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Reconstructive memory

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Altering our recollection of things so that they make more sense to us

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Interference

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Refers to things that we have learnt that make it difficult to recall other info that we have learnt

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Retroactive interference

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When info we have recently learnt obstructs our ability to recall info we learn previously

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Proactive interference

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When the info we have already learnt obstructs our ability to recall new info

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Context

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The general setting/environment in which activities happen

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Anterograde amnesia
People are unable to learn new info after suffering from brain damage
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Retrograde amnesia
People are unable to remember info about their life before bran damage occurred
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Hippocampus
Brain structure crucial for memory
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Eyewitness
Someone who has identified someone committing a crime and provides this evidence in a court of law
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Reliability
The extent to which an eyewitness testimony can be regarded as accurate
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Leading question
A type of question which hints to a certain answer