Memory Key terms

Question 1

Anxiety

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An unpleasant emotional state that is often a complained by an increase in heart rate and rapid breathing

Question 2

Capacity

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This is a measure of how much can be held in memory . it is represented in bits of information like numbers or digits

Question 3

Central executive

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Monitors and Coordinates all other mental functions in working memory

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Coding

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the way information is changed so that is can be stored in memory. information enters the brain via senses and is stored visually , acoustically or semantically

Question 5

cognitive interview

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A police technique that encourages them to recreate the crime in order to increase accessibility of stored information. This is because or memory is made up of associations

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Cues

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these are things that servers as a reminder . they have a meaningful link

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Duration

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A measure of how long a memory lasts before it is no longer available

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Episodic buffer

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Revives input from many sources and temporarily stores it. the makes a mental episode of what is being experienced

Question 9

Episodic memory

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personal memories of events. this kind of memory includes contextual details plus emotional tone

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Eyewitness testimony

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the evidence in court that is provided by a person who witnessed a crime . a view to identifying the perpetrator

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Leading question

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A question wither by the form or content reveals to the witness what answer is desired

Question 11

Interference

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a type of forgetting when one memory disrupts the ability to recall another. most likely to occur when memories are similar

Question 12

Long -term memory

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your memory for events that has happened in the past

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Misleading information

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supplying information that may lead a witness memory for a crime to be altered

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Multi-store model

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an explanation of memory based on three separate memory stores and how information can be transferred from store to store

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Phonological loop

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a phonological store that is dedicated to working memory and that serves to temporarily hold verbal information, and an articulation loop, through which inner speech is used to reactivate, or “refresh,” the representations in the phonological store.

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Post-event discussion

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a conversation between co witness and interviews and an eyewitness after a crime has taken place which may contaminant a witness memory for the event

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Proactive interference

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past learning interferes with the current attempts to learn something new

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Procedural memory

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memory of how to do things like learning how to read

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Retrieval failure

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occurs due to the absence of cues.

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Retroactive interference

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current attempts to learn something inference with past learning

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Semantic memory

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shared memories of facts and knowledge. these memory are concrete

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Sensory register

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this is information that is collected by your senses

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Short term memory

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your memory for immediate events

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Visuo-spatial sketchpad

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codes visual information in terms of separate objects as well as the of these objects

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Working memory model

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an explanation of the memory used when working on a task.