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What is memory?

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System by which we retain information and bring it to mind

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What is the process of memory?

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Encoding, Storage, Retrieval

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Define Encoding

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putting information into memory acoustically, visually, and semantically

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What are retrieval cues?

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Remembering something specific by retracing steps

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Difference between sensory, short term, and long term memories

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Short term: 30 seconds, acoustic
Long term: lasts days to a life time
Sensory: less than 4 seconds

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Types of sensory memory

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Iconic- mental visual representations
Echoic- metal represations of sound
Eidetic- recall visual images

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Maintenance vs. Elaborative rehearsal

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Maintenance: repeating information inside the head or to yourself
Elaborative: Things like mnemonic devices

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Declarative vs Procedural knowledge

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Declarative: facts and figures, recalled with conscious effort
Procedural: Habits and motor behaviors, recalled without conscious effort

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What is consolidation?

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a permanent memory is formed following a learning experience

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Semantic vs Episodic memory

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Semantic: factual
Episodic: picture

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Retrospective vs Prospective

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Retrospective: past
Prospective: Future

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Tip of the Tongue Phenomenon

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a state in which one cannot quite recall a familiar word but can recall words of similar form and meaning.

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Constructionist Theory

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Brain pieces together stored memories

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What are false memories?

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Cases in which people remember events differently from the way they happened

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What are flashbulb memories?

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Intense personal or historical event that is highly detailed. A lasting memory

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What is the misinformation effect?

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Demonstrates how easily memories can be influenced.

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What are some factors that affect the accuracy of eyewitness testimony?

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Speed/ease of recall
Confidence level
Subject knowledge
Racial identification
Facial features

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What are repressed memories?

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Rare to forget like childhood trauma

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Decay Theory

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Hermann Ebbinghaus, forgetting curve where we are more likely to forget information in the first hours of memory

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Interference Theory

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Other memories blocking a particular memory.
Include Proactive (blocks new memories) and Retroactive (blocks previous learned) memory

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Primary vs. Recency Effect

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Primary Effect: items near the beginning are more easily remembered
Recency Effect: Items near the end are more easily remembered

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Retrieval Theory

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Forgetting is due to a failure to access stored material

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Recall vs Recognition Memory

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Recall: fill in the blank, essay
Recognition: multiple choice

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What is the definition of amnesia?

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Partial or total loss of memory

25
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Retrograde Amnesia

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Loss of memory of past events

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Anterograde Amnesia

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Can’t form or store new memories

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Dissociative Amnesia

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May be too emotionally troubling to remember

28
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What is long-term potentiation?

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A process involving persistent strengthening of synapses that leads to a long-lasting increase in signal transmission between neurons

29
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Karl Lashley

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Studied rats brains to see where certain memories are stored in the brain

30
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Erik Kandel

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Studied snails and long term memory to see biochemical changes at synaptic level

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Thinking

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Representing and manipulating information

32
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Concepts of thinking

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Logical: clearly defined rules
Natural: poorly defined rules

33
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Problem Solving

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Insight: sudden realization of an answer
Algorithm: Step by step problem solving
Heuristic: rule of thumb

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Mental Roadblocks to problem solving

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Functional Fixedness: inability to discover a new use for an object
Mental set: assumptions or past solutions get in the way of new solutions

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Roadblocks in Decision Making

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Confirmation bias: looking for information that supports our initial beliefs or ideas
Representative Heuristic: sample behavior representative of larger population
Availability Heuristic: base decisions on examples that we can easily bring to mind.

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Divergent vs Convergent Thinking

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Divergent: many possible solutions
Convergent: Rules and logical reasoning

37
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Benjamin Whorf

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Language doesn’t determine thought, but influences it

38
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Binet and Simon’s Test

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measured a child’s IQ by mental age/chronological age

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What is stress?

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Pressures placed upon an organism to adjust or adapt to its environment

40
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Difference of stress between men and women?

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Women: nuture, check on things
Men: aggressive, attack the source

41
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Sources of stress

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Hassles
Frustration
Life events
Acculturative Stress-pressure

42
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Types of Conflict

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Approach-Approach: Choose between 2 good things
Avoidance-Avoidance: Choose between 2 negative things
Approach-Avoidance: One goal with positives and negatives
Multiple Approach-Avoidance: 2 or more options with positives and negatives

43
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General Adaptation Syndrome

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Alarm Stage: action
Resistance Stage: higher arousal
Exhaustion Stage: reserve energy

44
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PTSD

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Life threatening events that can reappear

45
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Personality A vs Personality B

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A: Highly competitive, achievement orientated, impatience–High blood pressure, anxiety–
B: Easy going, relaxed, comfortable

46
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Psychological Hardiness

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Social Support: commitment
Self-Efficacy: open to challenge

47
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What is personality?

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Relatively stable set of psychological characteristics and behavior patterns that make people unique and account for behavioral tendencies

48
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Frued’s Psychoanalytic Theory

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Behavior determined by subconscious

49
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Id, Ego, Superego

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Id: pleasure principle “it”
Ego: reality principle
Superego: Right and wrong

50
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Defense mechanisms of Psychoanalytic theory

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Repression: expulsion from awareness of unacceptable behaviors
Displacement: transfer of unacceptable impulses away from original object to safer one
Reaction Formation: behaving in a way opposite of one’s true feelings to hide them
Rationalization: Self-Justification to explain poor decisions or behavior

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Jung

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Analytical Psychology: emphasis on present than past

52
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Adler

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Individual Psychology: inferiority complex

53
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Horney

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feminine psychology

54
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Trait Theory

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the idea that people differ from one another based on the strength and intensity of basic trait dimensions

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