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Unit 5 - Memory and Problem Solving Flashcards

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Encoding

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Input of memory
Visual Encoding: picture images
Acoustic Encoding: sound of words
Semantic Encoding: meaning of words

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Storage

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File system of memories; stored mainly in the lobes of the cortex and cerebellum; the hippocampus forms memories, especially explicit memories.

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Retrieval

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Getting information out from memory.

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Parallel Processing

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We encode numerous sensory experiences simultaneously.

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Sensory Memory

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Initial recording of sensory information; holds sensory information long enough to be processed or transferred to short term memory.

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Iconic/Echoic Memory

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Visual/Auditory memory

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Working Memory (Short-Term Memory)

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Conscious processing of information/ holds 7+/-2 (5-9) items; holds these items for 20-30 seconds.

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Long-Term Memory

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Relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system.

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Explicit (Declarative) Memory

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Facts and experiences that one can consciously know and declare.

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Implicit (Non-declarative)/Procedural Memory

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Memories of how to do things; automatic procedures.

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Effortful Processing

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Learning and/or storing that requires attention and conscious effort to process information.

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Herman Ebbinghaus and Rehearsal (Repetition)

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The amount we remember correlates with time spent learning

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Automatic Processing

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Unconscious encoding of the incidental information, such as space, time, frequency, and of well-learned information.

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Mnemonics

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Memory aids; techniques that a person can use to help themselves remember or memorize things.

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Chunking

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Organizing items into familiar, manageable, units, such as acronyms.

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Methods of Loci

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Items are mentally associated with specific physical locations.

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Spacing Effect

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Distributed practice yields better long-term retention than massed practice.

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Testing Effect

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Enhanced memory after retrieving (test yourself as you go).

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Shallow Processing

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Encoding on the structure or appearance of words.

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Deep Processing

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Encoding meaning of the words (semantic encoding) to obtain the best retention.

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Semantic Encoding

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Meaning of something is encoded, opposed to encoding the sound of vision of it.

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Hippocampus

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Processes explicit (declarative) memories.

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Flashbulb Memory

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Highly emotional moment may give rise to a clear, strong, and persistent memory; not free from/still susceptible to errors.

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Cerebellum

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Processes implicit (procedural) memories.

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Long Term Potentiation

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Increase in a synapses’ firing potential.

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Priming

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Activation, often unconsciously, of certain associations (retrieval cues), predisposing one’s perception of something.

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Retrieval Cue

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Any word, place, emotion, clue, etc., that triggers a memory.

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Context Effect

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Improved recall of information when the context present at encoding and retrieval are the same.

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Mood-Congruent/State-Dependent Memory

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Tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with one’s current mood (or state of consciousness); high, drunk, depressed, happy, etc.

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Serial Position Effect (Primacy and Recency Effect)

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Recall is better for first (primacy effect) and last items on a list (recency effect), but poor for middle items.

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Amnesia

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Severe memory loss due to injury, disease, etc.

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Retrograde Amnesia

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Inability to remember past episodic information; caused by head injury.

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Anterograde Amnesia

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Inability to form new memories; related to hippocampus damage.

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Encoding Failure

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Original information was not encoded correctly the first time; caused by not paying attention; to avoid, we are encouraged to use effortful processing.

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Retrieval Failure

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If cues present during encoding are missing, memory cannot be retrieved.

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Ebbinghaus’ Forgetting Curve

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Most forgetting happens right after learning something; initial plunge then levels off, slowly declines until completely forgotten.

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Proactive (Forward Acting) Interference

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Disruptive effect of prior learning on recall of new information.

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Retroactive (Backwards Acting) Interference

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Disruptive effect of new learning on recall of old information.

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Repression

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Freudian term; defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness.

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Elizabeth Loftus and John Palmer Experiment

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Showed that people remember things differently depending on the language used to describe an event; we alter memories at times based on experiences and expectations.

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Misinformation Effect

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Incorporating misleading information into one’s memory of an event; in the Loftus and Palmer Experiment some participants added broken glass to their memory of the event.

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Source Amnesia

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Attributing to the wrong source an event that we experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined.

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Convergent Thinking

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Thinking that looks for only one solution.

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Divergent Thinking

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Looking for multiple ways to solve problems.

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Algorithms

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Methodical logical rules or procedures that guarantee solving a particular problem; will eventually reach the correct solution.

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Heuristics

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Simple thinking strategies that allow us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently; more prone to error.

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Representative Heuristic

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Any time we judge the likelihood of something based on how well it represents a prototype; causes us to override the use of statistics or logic.

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Availability Heuristic

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Any time we judge the likelihood of something based on information in our recent memories; leads to incorrect conclusions based on personal experience.

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Insight

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Sudden and often novel realization of the solution to a problem.

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Confirmation Bias

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Tendency to search for information that confirm a personal bias.

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Fixation

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Inability to see a problem from a fresh perspective.

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Mental Set

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Tendency to only see solutions that have worked in the past; inhibits our creativity.

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Functional Fixedness

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Tendency to think only of the familiar functions of an object.

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