Memory Flashcards

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1
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What is memory

A

Any change in behaviour resulting from experience

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2
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What are the 3 basic memory processes

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Encoding - info coded into memory

Storage - retain info over time

Retrieval - get info back

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3
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How many bits of info can we remember in STM

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7 plus or minus 2 bits

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What is short term memory

A

Memory for information currently “in mind”

Working memory

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What is long term memory

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Stored info that need not be presently accessed or even consciously accessible

Unlimited capacity

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6
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What’s explicit memory

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Episodic, semantic

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What’s implicit memory

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Procedural, habit

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What’s the serial position effect

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Tendency to retrieve info from beginning and end

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What’s the spacing effect

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Long term retention is enhanced when study sessions are spaced rather than crammed

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10
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What’s retroactive interference

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New memories interfere with older memories

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What’s proactive interference

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Older memories interfere with new memories

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12
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What’s the primacy effect

A

Recall the beginning of a list

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What’s the recency effect

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Recall the end of a list

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14
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How is LTM held in the brain

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Info held in the hippocampus for weeks or months

Then transferred to area of cerebral cortex

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What’s the multiple trace model

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That memories are simultaneously encoded in the hippocampus as well as other areas of the brain

Via optogenics and engram cells in mice

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16
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What are the 3 parts to retrieval

A

Recall

Cued recall

Recognition

17
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What’s the encoding specificity principle

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The extent to which encoding / retrieval overlap

18
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Why do you forget

A

Flashbulb memories

Incomplete coding

LTM retrieval problems - interference from other memories

19
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What is episodic memory

A

Events you have experienced

20
Q

What is semantic memory

A

General knowledge

Facts

21
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What is retrograde

A

Memory loss for past info

Temporally graded

22
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What is anterograde

A

Inability to store new information

23
Q

What are the memory systems like in amnesia

A

STM- spared

Implicit memory- spared

Episodic memory- impaired

Semantic- typically impaired