Memory, Cognition, Language & Intelligence Flashcards
Sensory Memory
Function: Receiving many sensory inputs at a time
Capacity: Large
Duration: Brief
Echoic
Auditory memory
Lasts the longest
Iconic
Visual memory
Short Term Memory (working)
Function: Hold info for brief time.
Capacity: Limited (7-9)
Duration: Brief (20-30 sec)
Long Term
Function: Memories
Capacity: Large
Duration: ? possible forever.
Maintenance Rehersal
Mental or verbal repetition of info allows info to remain longer.
Encoding
Short term to Long term
Automatic Processing
Big things, survival
Effortful Processing
Have to put in effort
Shallow Processing
memorization
Deep Processing
Making connections+ applications.
Rehearsal
Saying it out load
Spacing
30 min breaks
Imagery
Visualize info
Mnemonics
Words that represent something else
chunking
Combining info
Serial Position effect
Primary: Remembering what comes 1st.
Regency: Remembering what comes last.
Tip of the Tongue
Know you know but can’t produce the knowledge.
Recall
Retrieving memories no cues (essay)
Cued Recall
retrieving memories with cues (fill in the blank)
Recognition
Identifying correct into from a list. (multiple choice)
Encoding specificity Principle
When conditions of retrieval are similar to conditions of encoding makes retrieval is more likely.
Context Effects
Environment is the same
State dependent
Physical (Internal)
Mood Convergence
Mood/emotions
Priming
Activation, often unconscious, of particular associations in memory.
Semantic Network Model
starts 1 place and end in another.
Conversation begins with tree and ends with elementary school teachers.
Explicit
Effortful
Frontal lobe (working memory)
Hippocampus ( Left- verbal, Right - visual)
1. Associate names with faces
2. Spatial mnemonics
During sleep memories move to Cortex)
Implicit
Automatic
Cerebellum - Classical coditioning
Cortex move to Basal Ganglia - procedural memories
Infantile Amnesia
Why activities learned as a baby last to adulthood even if you don’t remember learning it.
Amygdola
Mood Congruence
Long term potentiation (LTP)
Neural basis for learning and remember associations.
Retrograde Amnesia
Unable to remember past episodic event after a head injury
Anterograde amnesia
Unable to form new memories (hippocampus damaged)
Dementia
Decline in mental function
Alzhemiers
Type of dementia
Destroys neurons targeting “memory” neurons 1st.