Unit 7 Flashcards Memory

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1
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Memory def

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Process of storing and remembering info and using it for future use

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2
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3 Steps for memory

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1) encoding
2) storage
3) retrival

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3
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Encoding def

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Info entering the memory system

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4
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Storage def

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Record of info being created

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5
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Retrival def

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Recovering info for usage

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6
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Storage decay def

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Occurs when you stop usijg the info learned / gray memories

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7
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Parallel processing

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Ability to deal w multiple stimuli simultaneously/ to encode lots of info

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8
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Sensory memory def

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Short term (second) processed by the sensory organs

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Two types of sensory memory and defs

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1) iconic
Visual stimuli

2) echoic
Sound/auditory stimuli

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10
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Working term/ short term memory

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Holding of mems when they do not enter storage

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Long term memory

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Easily used/ manipulated for own use

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Explicit / declaritve

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Use of effortful processing / conscious recollection of info does not not happen automatically

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13
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Two types of explicit

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1) Eposodic
Conscious recollection of life experience

2) semantic
Declaritive facts / trivia fact

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14
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Implicit memory

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Riding a bike and swimming / automatic (non declaritive memory)

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15
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measures of retrival

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1) recall
No aid in memory

2) recogniton
Multi choice

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16
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Chunking

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Dividing large info into smaller units

Phone number

17
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Nmonics

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Techniques to assist w memory

Ex: rhyming, acronyms

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Hierarchies

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Placing order/ ordering

19
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Spacing effect

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Memorizing through small reps over long non repeated sessions is more effective

20
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Testing effect

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Creation of self testing / self guiding

21
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Priming

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Used by people (especially teachers) to expose to stimulus to influence/ modify a response

22
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State dependent memory def amd ex

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Mem of past events improved when a person is in the same state when mem was formed
Ex: when crying think of sadder events which makes it worse

23
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Mood congruent memory

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Correlation between mood state and our emotional context of a memory

24
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Serial position effect

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Remember the beginning and end better

25
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Ebbinghaus forgetting curve

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100% retention at first and over time you loose the memory

26
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Elizabeth loftue misinfo effect def and ex

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Memories can be manipulated and misled based on the time and others
Ex: brain games and the 2 cars episode

27
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Deja vu

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Sensation you have experienced an event before

28
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Amnesia def

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Loss of a memory

29
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4 types of amnesia

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1) anterograde amnesia
After traumatic event

2) retrograde amnesia
Lose memories before

3) proactive interference
Old info blocks you from learning new info

4) retractive interference
New info interfere w prev learned info

30
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PORN meaning

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Proactive old info

Retrograde new