Memory Systems Flashcards

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What is short-term memory?

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Transient and temporary information store before moving into long-term memory

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What’s Miller’s magic number 7+/-2?

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Amount of information that can be held in working memory

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What is chunking?

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Grouping information into meaningful units

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Baddeley’s working memory model

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Central executive controls slave systems phonological loop and visuospatial sketchpad for maintaining information

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Evidence for phonological loop

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remember more words if monosyllabic, and less when more syllables (repeat words to self)

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What two are spared in amnesia?

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Skill learning

Priming effects

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Explicit memory is _____________ memory. It is _________ in amnesia and ___________ on MTL binding

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Conscious; knowing that; declarative
Impaired
Depends

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Implicit memory is _____________ memory. It is _________ in amnesia and ___________ on MTL binding

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Unconscious; knowing how; procedural
Spared
Does not depend

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Semantic Memory

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Facts, general knowledge

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Episodic Memory

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One’s own experience

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Anterograde amnesia

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Condition that prevents him from forming new memories

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Hippocampus

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Part of medial temporal lobe
Responsible for forming new memories
Evidence: case study with HM

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Partial-report procedure

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Participants cued to report only a portion of the entire display

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