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Memory Flashcards

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Information Processing Model

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  • Proposes our brains are similar to computers.
  • We get input from environment, process it, and output decisions.
  • Doesn’t describe where things happen in the brain.
  • INPUT -> PROCESS -> OUTPUT
  • The information-processing model is a bottom-up or stimulus driven model.
  • The information-processing model assumes limited storage capacity.
  • The human brain is believed to have a limited capacity for attention.
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Sensory Memory (Register)

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  • Two components based on type of input.
  • You have iconic (memory for what you see, lasts half a second)
  • Also have echoic (what you hear, lasts 3-4 seconds) memory.
  • They are defined by time.
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Working Memory (Short–Term Memory)

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  • is the sensory information you actually process.
  • Consists of what you are thinking about at the moment.
  • Capacity is Magic number 7 . Working memory can hold 7 +/- 2 pieces of info at a time. Why phone #s are 7 digits long.
  • Working memory is memory that is stored while it is held in attention.
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Long-Term Memory

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  • Capacity is unlimited.
  • 2 main categories:
    1. Explicit (declarative)
    2. Implicit (non-declarative)
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Explicit Memory /Declarative

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  • are facts/events you can clearly/explicitly describe.
  • Explicit memory is a type of long term memory that focuses on recalling previous experiences and information.
  • Explicit memory can be divided into teo categories:
    1. Episodic
    2. Semantic
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Semantic Memory (Explicit Memory)

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  • Anytime you take vocabulary test or state capitals (has to do with words/facts).
  • So remembering simple facts like meanings of words.
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Episodic Memory (Explicit Memory)

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  • Event-related memories…like your last birthday party.
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Implicit Memories /Non-Declarative

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  • Involve things you may not express fluently.
  • is a type of memory in which previous experiences aid the performance of a task without conscious awareness of these previous experiences.
  • Example: riding a bycicle
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Procedural Memories (Implicit Memory)

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  • Is long-term memory for actions or habits
  • All habits are procedural memories
  • Memories that inform unconscious motor skills
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Priming

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  • is an implicit memory effect in which exposure to one stimulus (i.e., perceptual pattern) influences the response to another stimulus.
  • Two types:
    1. Negative Priming
    2. Positive Priming
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Negative Priming

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  • is an implicit memory effect in which prior exposure to a stimulus unfavorably influences the response to the same stimulus.
  • Caused by experiencing the stimulus, and then ignoring it.
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Positive Priming

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  • speeds up processing. caused by simply experiencing the stimulus.
  • is thought to be caused by spreading activation. This means that the first stimulus activates parts of a particular representation or association in memory just before carrying out an action or task.
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Autobiographical Memory

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  • is a memory system consisting of episodes recollected from an individual’s life, based on a combination of episodic (personal experiences and specific objects, people and events experienced at particular time and place) and semantic (general knowledge and facts about the world) memory.
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Encoding Strategies: Encoding

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  • is transferring information from the temporary store in working memory into permanent store in long-term memory.
  • is more successful when more cognitive effort is actively used. Combining encoding strategies is more useful than using only one.
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Endoging Strategy: Encoding Specificity

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  • Enhanced memory when testing takes place under the same conditions as learning.
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Encoding Strategy: Rote Rehearsal

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  • is simply repeating information. It requires the least amount of cognitive effort.
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Encoding Strategy: Chunking

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  • we group info we’re getting into meaningful categories we already know to ease memorization.
  • Example: hunk the following list : bananas, oranges, blueberries, bread, rice, chicken, peanuts, baking soda, flour, eggs, butter:
  • Bananas, orange, blueberries = fruits
  • Bread, rice = grains
  • Chicken , peanuts = proteins
  • Baking soda, flour, eggs, butter = baking supplies
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Encoding Strategy: Mnemonic Devices

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  • Link what you are trying to learn into previously exist long-term information that is already in your memory.
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Types of Mnemonic: Pegword System

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  • Verbal anchors link words that rhyme with the number.
  • Example:
  • 1 is bun
  • 2 is shoe
  • 3 is tree
  • 4 is door
  • 5 is skydive
  • 6 is sticks
  • 7 is heaven
  • Then you pair list to each of the words you are trying to remember using imagery like Broccoli looks like a tree so it’s 4th on the list.
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Types of Mnemonic: Method of loci

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  • good for remembering things in order, link info to locations.
  • Tie information you need to remember to certain stops along a route that you already know.
  • Example: Bananas raining down on bus stop you get on, next stop there are oranges being thrown at, and the final stop you have a cat eating blueberries. Again, this method also ties imagery.
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Types of Mnemonic: Acronym

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  • each of the letter of a popular word you know stands for the first letters of a set of words you need to remember.
  • Example: HOMES to remember Great lakes of the US – Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie and Superior
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Encoding Strategy: Self-Referencing:

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  • Think about new info and how it relates to you personally.
  • Example: Imagine learning something about history, you then learn the information by talking to the general by saying how it relates to you.
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Encoding Strategy: Spacing

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  • Spreading out study sessions overtime in shorter periods rather than cramming them into one study session. [spacing effect]
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Retrieval Cues

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  • Trying to remember/call up a memory of something you learned before.
  • Successful retrieval depends on being able to use cues around you and to recognize the association between cues present at encoding and cues present at retrieval.
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Retrieval Cues: Free Recall

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  • no cues in recalling. Better recalling first items on a list (primacy effect) as well as last few (recency effect). Harder to remember things in the middle of a list.
  • Recency effect is not as strong if there is an interpretation after list is called.
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Retrieval Cues: Cued Recall

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  • Having extra clues to remember the words. Still have to produce an answer but still get more cues to help you.
  • The added cues help you retrieve the information from your long term memory.
  • For example, giving you the cue of “pl____” and asking for what word was on a list and you answer “planet”. This would be easy.
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False Information

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  • inaccurate recollections of an event.
  • Example: Experiment done where participants watched a car stop at a yield sign. After the video, participants were given a written description on what happened, and some of the descriptions included false information about the car stopping- saying that the car stopped at a stop sign instead of a yield sign.
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Emotional Memories

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  • can be positive or negatively valenced.
  • Highly emotional memories that feel extremely vivid are called flashbulb memories and even though they seem as real as life, they are still susceptible to reconstruction as less emotional memories.
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Flashbulb Memories

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  • people claimed to remember detail of what they were doing when they received news about an emotionally arousing event.
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Neural Plasticity

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  • changes in brain size/ and involves function of environmental influences.
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Decay

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  • One reason forgetting happens. When we don’t encode something well or don’t retrieve it for a while, we can’t recall it anymore.
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Retroactive Interference

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  • new learning impairs old info.
  • Refers to later information interfering with memory for earlier information.
  • Example: Writing new address makes it difficult to recall your old address
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Proactive Interference

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  • something you learned in past impairs learning in future.
  • Earlier information interferes with later information.
  • Example: New password learning – prior pw learning impairs ability to learn new one.
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Aging

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  • is a natural process and with it come changes in memory.
  • Most people associate aging with declines in cognitive performance, but some abilities decline, some remain stable, and some improve.
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Dementia

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  • is term for decline in memory and other cognitive functions to the point of interfering with normal daily life – results from excessive damage to brain tissue
  • Example: From strokes or other causes.
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Alzheimer’s Disease (AD)

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  • Exact cause unknown.
  • Neurons die off over time and as neurons die off, cerebral cortex shrinks in size.
  • is a progressive brain disorder that affects different aspects of memory over time.
  • Earliest symptoms are memory loss, particularly difficulty to retrieve or decode recent memories.
  • Other symptoms are difficulties with: attention, planning, semantic memory, and abstract thinking.
  • As it progresses, more severe language difficulties appear and greater memory loss, such as inability to recognize close family and friends.
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Korsakoff’s Syndrome

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  • caused by lack of vitamin B1 or thiamine.
  • Caused by malnutrition, eating disorders, and especially alcoholism.
  • These groups don’t process or absorb all the nutrients they need.
  • Thiamine is important because converts carbohydrates into glucose cells need for energy. Important for normal functioning of neurons.
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Wernicke’s Encephalopathy

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  • precursor to Korsakoff’s syndrome.
  • If Wernicke’s encephalopathy is diagnosed in time it can reverse the damage or at least prevent further damage.
  • If untreated, will progress to Korsakoff’s Syndrome, which has a main symptom of severe memory loss, accompanied by confabulation
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Retrograde Amnesia

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  • is inability to recall info previously encoded.
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Anterograde Amnesia

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  • is inability to encode new memories.
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Amnesia

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  • is a deficit in memory caused by brain damage, disease, or psychological trauma.
  • Amnesia can also be caused temporarily by the use of various sedatives and hypnotic drugs.
  • Essentially, amnesia is loss of memory.
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Retrograde Memory

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  • refers to ability to remember experiences before a brain injury (Retro = beofre)
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Anterograde Memory

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  • refers to ability to form long-term memories after brain injury.

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