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Memory Flashcards

1
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What are the 3 stages of memory

A

> Encoding
Storage
Retrieval

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2
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What are the 3 types of storage’s?

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> Sensory
Short term
Long term

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What are the 3 parts to long term memory

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> Episodic
Semantic
Procedural

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4
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What part of memory is damaged in dementia?

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> Short term

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5
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What is superior memory?

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> Recency effect

>Remember words later in a list

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6
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What is enhance memory?

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> Primary effect

>Remember words earlier in a list

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7
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Describe echoic memory

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> Recency persists

>Sound lingers> persists for loner

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8
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Describe Iconic memory

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> No recency effects

>Images fades quickly

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9
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What is the capacity of short term memory?

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> 7 +/- 2 digits

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10
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What is chunking?

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> Memory method

>Organise info into larger meaningful units

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11
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What happens when you count backwards?

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Lose info by displacement
>Lose recency effect
>Lose superior memory for words later in list, gain for those earlier
>Short term memory replaced by numbers you have to keep in your head while reading backwards

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12
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What does rehearsal do?

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> Improves primacy
Maintains maintenance
Maintains & elaborates> linked to long term

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13
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What is episodic

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> events related to you

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14
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What is semantic?

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> General knowledge

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15
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What is procedural?

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> Skills based

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16
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Methods for encoding in long term memory

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> Meaningful connections
Elaboration
Mnemonics

17
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What is Synaesthesia?

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> Crossing of sensory modalities> multiple percepts

18
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What is the Luria’s caste study (Synaesthesia)

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Edetic imagery 
>Memory and visual percepts
Method of loci
>Journey method
>Told & visualised story to help memorise
19
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What is Hyperthymia

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> Highly superior autobiographical memory HSAM

> Irrepressible stream of memories impairs cognitive performance

20
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Retrieval from LTM

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> Recall vs recognition
Context effects
tip of tongue

21
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Give me 2 examples of short term memory

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> Echoic

>Iconic

22
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Who came up with the multi-store memory model?

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Baddeley

look at diagram in notes

23
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What is the serial position curve

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> Position of word in list influences ease of recall

24
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What are the 2 alternative descriptions of memory systems

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> Explicit (knowing that)

>Implicit (knowing how)

25
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Process of explicit memory

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>The cognitive system
>Explicit 
>Working memory
PFC
>Consolidation
Hippocampus
>Long term memory
TOP
>Episodic/ semantic
26
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Process of implicit memory

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> Implicit
Basal ganglia/ cerebellum
Skills/ classical conditioning

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