PSYCH FINAL Flashcards

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What is memory?

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ability to store and retrieve information over time

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What is encoding?

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process of transforming what we perceive and think into memory

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What is storage in terms of memory?

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Process of maintaining information in memory over time

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Why is memory a construction?

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Memories are made by combining already known information with new information from the senses

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What is retrieval in memory

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process of bringing to mind information that has been previously encoded and stored

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What are the three types of encoding called?

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Semantic encoding, Visual imagery encoding, organizational encoding

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Describe semantic encoding

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Relates new information in a meaningful way to knowledge that is already stored in the brain

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What regions of the brain does semantic encoding take place

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Lower left frontal lobe and inner left frontal lobe

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What is visual encoding and what part of the brain does it activate

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Storing new information by converting it into mental pictures. (Trying to remember picture of dog and creating an image of a dog in your mind). Activates your occipital lobe.

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What is organizational encoding

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Categorizing information according to the relationship among a series of items. (Server groups orders into hot drinks, cold drinks etc.

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What is sensory memory

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Storage that holds information for a few seconds or less

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What are the two types of sensory memory

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Echoing memory and iconic memory

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What is echoic memory and what is iconic memory

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Fast decaying store of auditory information (echoic) Fast decaying store of visual information (Iconic)

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What is short term memory

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Holds information for more than a few seconds and less than a minute.

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What is rehearsal in memory

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Keeping information in short term memory by mentally repeating it.

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What is the serial position effect

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Firs few and last few items are more likely to be recalled than items in the middle

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What is the primacy effect

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More opportunity for rehearsal of first items— more likely encoded into long term memory

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What is the regency effect

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Rehearsal of last times still in short term storage

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How many meaningful items can short term memory store at once

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Can hold about 7 meaningful items at once

20
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What is chunking

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Combining small pieces of information into larger chunks, more easily held in short term memory

21
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What is working memory

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Active maintenance of information in short term storage

22
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What is visuospatial sketchpad used for

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Used for visual images

23
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What is phonological loop used for

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used for verbal information

24
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What is episodic buffer

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integrates visual and verbal information from subsystems into a combined code

25
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What is central executive

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coordinates subsystems and episodic buffers

26
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What is anterograde amnesia

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inability to transfer new information from short term store into long term store

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What is retrograde amnesia

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inability to retriev information aquired before a certain date (surgery)

28
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What part of the brain is critical for memory formation

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hippocampus

29
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What is consolidation

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process by which memories become stable in the brain

30
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What is long term potential

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communication across synapses between neurons strengthens the connection, making further communication easier

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what is encoding specicifity principle

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when a retrieval cue helps recreate the specific way info was initially coded (putting yourself in same environment u originally learned)

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What is state dependant retrieval

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info tends to be better recalled when person is in same state during encoding and retrieval

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What is transfer appropriate message

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memory is likely to transfer from one situation to another when contexts of encoding and retreival situations match

34
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What is retreival induced forgetting

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retrieving an item from long term memory impaired subsequent recall of related events

35
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Whats explicit memory

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when people conciously or intentionally retrive past expreiences

36
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What is implicit memory

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when past experiences influence later behaviour and performance even without an effort to remember them

37
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What are the two types of long term memory called?

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Explicit memory and implicit memory

38
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What are the 7 memory “sins”

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Transience
Absentmindedness
Blocking
Memory misattribution
suggestibility
Bias
Persistance

39
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What is transience

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the forgetting that occurs with the passage of time

40
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What is absentmindedness

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lapse in attention that results in memory failure

41
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What is blocking

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failure to retrieve information available in memory despite trying to produce it

42
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What is memory misattribution

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assigning a recollection of an idea to the wrong source

43
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What is suggestibility

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tendency to incorporate misleading information from external sources into personal recollations

44
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What is bias

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distorting influences of present knowledge, beliefs, and feelings on recollection of previous experience.

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What is persistance

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intrusive recollection of events we wish we could forget