memory

Question 1

memory is not a

Answer 1

unitary store

Question 2

explicit memory

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declarative - conscious awareness

Question 3

types of explicit memory

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episodic - biographical

semantic- words, ideas, concepts

Question 4

implicit

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non declarative

Question 5

types of implicit

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procedural-skills

emotional conditioning

Question 6

clive wearing

Answer 6

amnesia

procedural memory stays intact but episodic and procedural is damaged

Question 7

history of memory research

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ancient cultures - gods/goddesses associated specifically with memory

Question 8

plato

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all essential truths are stored in memory

remembering needs retrieval

Question 9

Aristotle

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mind contains block of wax

remembering needs initial encoding and storage w

Question 10

memory stage

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encoding , storage and retrieval

Question 11

Aristotle memory is the

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power of retention and recollection-associations

Question 12

laws of association

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similarity, contrast, contiguity - occur close together

Question 13

17th century major change in the way

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memory was studied and conceptualised

beginning of modern psychology

Question 14

empiricism

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the mind and memory starts as tabula rase- blank slate

associations are engraved on it by experiences

Question 15

19th century Ebbinghaus

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numerical approach , tested himself , invented nonsense syllables to reduce effects of previous knowledge

Question 16

law of learning

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recited lists of 16 syllables
repeated recitation
24 hours later measured ho long it took to relearn lists

Question 17

the amount learnt depends

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on the time spent learning

total time hypothesis

Question 18

law of forgetting

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measured time required to learn a list of 13 syllables
waited before relearning the same material
measured how long it took to relearn lists

Question 19

bahrick

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info is lost overtime when there is no attempt to retain it

Question 20

Bartlett

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conducted experiments by having people reconstruct past experiences
serial reproduction

Question 21

Ebbinghaus

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quantitative , removed influence of meaning - CVC, universal constraints and reactivate a decayed trace

Question 22

Bartlett

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qualitative , meaningful materials, stories and pics, influence of culture, memory is reconstructive via schema

Question 23

schema

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new info is remembered in terms of already existing structures

Question 24

ulrich Neisser

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memory should be studied moron everyday life