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immediate

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STM

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delayed recall

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LTM

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this happens within 2-20 seconds

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STM

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stimulus driven

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STM

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this is where current/recent info is held

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STM

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executive controller in charge of conscious processing to other components in memory system

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working memory

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verbal rehersal takes place in

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working memory

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grouping of info held in STM

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chunking

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grouping items into units so we can remember them better

ex:area codes, social security

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chunking

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interference takes away

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STM

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digits are over learned

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true

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3 types of recall

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  • free
  • serial
  • recognition
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mental recycling

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rehearsal buffer

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increases likelihood of transferring to LTM

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rehearsal buffer

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display of accuracy in recall across original positions in “to be learned” list, bow tied shape

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serial position curve

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early, first position of list

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primacy

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last few items of list

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recency

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list of items may be recalled in any order

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free recall

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participants must recall list of items in the order they were presented in

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serial recall

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Y/N task in which participants are asked to judge whether they’ve seen the stimulus before and their Y/N response is timed and measured

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recognition task

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verbal rehearsal and conscious processing takes place, executive controller is in charge of conscious processing

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Baddeley’s working memory model

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mechanism responsible for assessing attentional needs of different subsystem & furnishings of said subsystems.

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central executive

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any executive component of the memory system keeps track of processes completed, diverting attention from one activity to another

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executive controller

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part of phonological loop involved in active refreshing of info

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articulatory loop

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component responsible for recycling verbal material via rehearsal

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phonological loop

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visual and perceptual component of Baddeley’s working memory model

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visual-spatial sketch pad

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portion of working memory where info from different sources are bound together to form new episodic memories

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episodic buffer

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method in which 2 tasks are preformed simultaneously

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dual task paradiagms

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interference during recall b/c of some previous activity

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proactive interference

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interference from recent event/experience that influences memory for an earlier event
ex: trying to recall items from list1 but instead recalling items from list2

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retroactive interference

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LTM retrieval that entails deliberate recollection or awareness

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explicit memory

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LTM performance affected by prior experience with no necessary awareness of the influence

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implicit memory

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LTM knowledge that can be retrieved then reflected on consciously

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declarative memory

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general world knowledge is stored

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semantic memory

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personally experience info is stored

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episodic memory

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mental activation of a concept by some means or spread of activation from one concept to another

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priming

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activation of some target info by action of a previously presented prime

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priming

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38
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info subjected only to maintanence rehearsal isn’t being processed more deeply into meaning based levels of memory system and isn’t being recalled/recognized as accurate info

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Craik and Lockhart’s levels of processing

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task in which pairs of items(stimulus/response) are to be learned and upon presentation of stimulus the response term can be recalled

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paired associate learning

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memory loss caused by brain damage/injury

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amnesia

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loss of memory for info before the damage

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retrograde amnesia

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loss of memory for info after the damage

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anterograde amnesia

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specific nature of an item’s coding including all the context that it was encoded in, determines how effectlivly the item can be retrieved

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encoding specificity

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concrete words can be encoded into memory twice, one as verbal symbols and once as image based symbols. this increases the likelihood they’ll be remembered

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dual coding hypothesis

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momentary retrieval failure, with the sense of being on the verge of retrieving the concept

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tip of the tongue (TOT)

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input or take into memory

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encoding

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accessing info stored in memory whether or not that accesss involves conscious awareness

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retrieval

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LTM knowledge is accessed/retrieved. some form of mental excitation is believed to be passed along the pathways that connect concepts in a memory network

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spreading activation

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point/location in LTM, a concept or representation in memory

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nodes

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reaction time is sped up for judgments are made easier when the concepts are closer together in semantic distance when they’re closely related

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semantic relatedness effect

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a task in which subjects must respond t/f to simple sentences

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sentence verification tasks

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typical members of a category tend to be judged more rapidly than atypical members

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typicality effect

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typical or average member of a category

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prototype

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simple y/n task in which subjects are timed as they decide whether the letter string being presented is a word

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lexical decision

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disruption in which a person loses access to 1 semantic category of words/concepts while not losing others

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category-specific deficit

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positive/negative effect on processing b/c of prior presentation of related info

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facilitation

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active suppression of mental representations of salient but irrelevant info so that the activation level is reduced

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inhibition

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of intervening trials between a prime and a target

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lags

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1st stimulus in a prime-target pair intended to exert some influence on 2nd stimulus

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prime

60
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2nd pair of prime-target stimulus, any concept that’s designated as being of special interest

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target

61
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memory of something that didn’t happen

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false memory

62
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incorrectly claiming to remember info that wasn’t part of original experience

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misinfo effect

63
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memory of the exact source of info

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source memory

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intentional forgetting of painful experiences

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repressed memories

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memories of specific, personally exeperience in real world

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autobiographical memory

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memories of specific, emotionally salient events, reported subjectively to be as detailed as a photo

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flashbulb memories

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longer words are recalled less

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word length effect

68
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words/letters that sound the same are harder to retain

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phonological similarity

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planning future action, decisions, retrieval

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central executive

70
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this part of the brain moves STM into LTM

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hippocampus

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the events

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eposodic

72
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the facts

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semantic

73
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nondeclarative

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implicit

74
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personal, autobiographical

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eposodic

75
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general world knowledge

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semantic

76
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he used himself as a participant in his studies

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Ebbinghaus

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remembering stuff after a few days

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relearning task

78
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not as likely to get into LTM

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low level

79
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memory is determined by how the person processes it

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depth of processing

80
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he made up the dual coding hypothesis

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Paivo

81
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remembering objects, we have a place for the word/images

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dual coding hypthoesis

82
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taking a test in the same place you’ve learned info is an example of

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encoding specificity

83
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HERA

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hemispheric encoding and retrieval asymmetry

84
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left prefrontal cortex has ___ info

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encoding

85
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right prefront corex has __ info

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retrieval

86
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this guy was like 50 first dates

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HM

87
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HM had __ amesia

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anterograde amnesia

88
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this task invovled rotating a , ppl with Alzheimer’s disease had good ___ not ____

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procedural, eposodic

89
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knowledge about one’s own memory and how it works

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metamemory

90
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example of spreading activiation

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car-> truck

91
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when each concept has a list of semantic features/hierarchial levels

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feature comparision

92
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example of hierarchial network

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bird, feathers, red-breasted

93
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she said that a membership in categories is a matter of degree, having boundaries

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elanor rosch

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example of person who has category specific deficit

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JBR

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ERP

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event related potentials

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this reflects whether sentences make sense or not

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ERP

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concrete words are learned better than abstract

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true

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there is a long reaction time in ___ category

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semantic

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immediate priming is faster

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true

100
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trace/neural changes that represent meaning

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engram

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change in weights

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connectism

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active org of past reaction/experiences

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schemas

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org collection of info

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knowledge

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comprehension is top down

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true

105
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things we know how to do in everyday life

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scripts

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scripts is faster to process info

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true

107
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when you forget stuff

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acts of omission

108
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when you alter what was supposed to be remembered

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acts of commission

109
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failure to forget

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persistance

110
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representation of meaning that can be stored in/retrieved from memory

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proposition

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how we think is influenced by how we act/interact with our world

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true

112
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verbatim mental representation of exact words, technical accuracy

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surace

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basic idea units

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textbase

114
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create models of situations described (gist)

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situation

115
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taking what you hear/read, build propositions

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language abstraction

116
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ability to do something in the future

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prospective memory

117
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change in memory of experienced event as a fxn of some later event

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memory impairment

118
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4 factors of memory distortion

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  • source misattribution
  • misfo acceptance
  • implanted memories
  • memory over confidence
119
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jury responds to

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eye witness testimony

120
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seeiing same ppl everyday

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prolonged acquisition

121
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seeing same ppl every week

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distributed practice

122
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infantile amnesia appears in what age?

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2-4 yrs

123
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reminiscence bump appears in what age?

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15-25 yrs

124
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example of spontaneous memory

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odor

125
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high emotional content

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flashbulb content

126
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Descartes

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mind/body

127
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mind is

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conscious

128
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mind

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effortful
immediate
remembering

129
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body is

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unconscious

130
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body

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LTM
automatic
knowing

131
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How do we study consciousness?

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-priming
-vision
-sleep
-altered states of consciousness
(behavior, EEG)

132
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below level of conscious recognition

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subliminal priming

133
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conscious awareness

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sensory threshold

134
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some awareness but less control of thoughts

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daydreaming

135
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healthy sleep, dreams

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REM

136
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altered states of consciousness

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  • coma
  • locked in syndrome
  • minimally conscious
137
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where you are paralyzed and voiceless but know what’s going on around you

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locked in syndrome

138
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restores communication channels with ppl who have locked in syndrome

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brain computer interfaces

139
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this profession is an example of normal adults who lose consciousness

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fighter pilots

140
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intrinsic, consciously accessable, non-physical phenomena objects that are responsible for their phenominal behavior, sense of self

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qualia

141
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working memory relies on

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phonological info

142
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phonological store is like your ___, you can hear yourself talk to yourself

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inner ear

143
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articulatory loop is like your ___ when you mentally say things to yourself

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inner voice

144
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example of visual spatial

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mental rotation

145
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this is where important chunking occurs

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episodic buffer

146
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retrieves info from LTM

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workingmemory

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