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Memory Flashcards

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What types of encoding is used in STM?

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Acoustic

Visually

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What types of encoding is used for LTM?

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Semantic

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What is the meaning of acoustic encoding?

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Encoding through hearing it

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What is visual encoding?

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Encoding though site

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What is semantic encoding

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Encoding through meaning

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What types of retrieval are there?

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Recognition,
Cued recall,
Free recall

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What is encoding?

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The information must be translated into a form so that is can be held in your brain.

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What is storage?

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The information is kept in your brain for a period of time - possibly a lifetime.

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What is retrieval?

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The process of being able to access information that has been stored in your brain and being able to use it.

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10
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How could you store a film?

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Visually

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How could you store a song?

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Acoustically

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12
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How could you store using a fraction?

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Semantically

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13
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How could you store your cat’s fur?

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Tactile - touch

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How could you store fish and chips?

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Taste and olfactory

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What types of things would you remember in your LTM?

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Names, personality’s of others, passwords

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What types of things would you remember in your STM?

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Conversations, school work, what you had for lunch

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What is free recall?

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Retrieval without cues.

18
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Recognition?

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E.G - seeing someone and being able to identify who they are.

19
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What is cued recall?

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You try and remember a piece of information and someone gives you a clue or a cue.

20
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What is procedural memory?

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A long-term memory store for our knowledge of how to do things.

21
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What is episodic memory?

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A long-term memory store for personal events.

22
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Which memory is unconscious?

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Procedural memory.

23
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What memory is conscious?

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Episodic,

Semantic

24
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What is the duration of the sensory register?

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About half a second

25
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What coding is in the sensory register?

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It is raw unprocessed information?

26
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What is the capacity for the sensory register?

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High capacity?

27
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What is the coding for STM?

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Mainly acoustic

28
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What is the duration for STM?

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About 30 seconds

29
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What is the capacity of STM?

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Between 5 and 9 pieces of information

30
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What is the coding for LTM?

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Mainly semantic

31
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What is the duration of LTM?

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Up to a lifetime

32
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What is the capacity of LTM?

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Unlimited

33
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What is the recency effect?

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The words (example) that your hear at the end, so the most the recent thing you hear.

34
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What is the primary effect?

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The words (example) you hear first.

35
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Why do people remember the last thing that is said?

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It stays in their STM till they need to recall it.

36
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Why do people remember the first words that are said to them?

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They have more time to go over them and put them into their LTM.

37
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Why is memory inaccurate?

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People changed what they read, and when reconstructed it they missed out bits.

38
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What are some social and cultural influences?

A

How they have grown up and there culture.

39
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What are some social and cultural influences?

A

(Boat instead of canoe, fishing instead of hunting seals.

40
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What is effort after meaning?

A

The participants putting effort in to fill in the gaps when recalling to make the story to make sense.

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