Vocab 2nd half

Question 0

Iconic Memory

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visual sensory memory consisting of a perfect photographic memory, which last no longer than 10 sec. brief visual memories

Question 1

Hierarchies

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broad concepts divided and subdivided into narrower concepts and facts

Question 2

Echoic Memory

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momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli, lasting 3-4 sec.

Question 3

George Miller

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Enshrined recall capacity of the magical number 7, plus or minus 2

Question 4

Longterm Potentiation (LTP)

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increase in synapse firing potential following brief, rapid stimulation. LTP is believed to be neural basis for learning and memory.

Question 5

Amnesia

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a loss of memory

Question 6

Implict Memory

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memories of skills, preferences, and dispositions, these are processed by the cerebellum.

Question 7

Explicit Memory

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memories of facts, including names, images, and events. Called Declarative Memories

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Hippocampus

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neural center in limbic system that is important in processing of explicit memories for storage

Question 9

Cerebellum

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“Little Brain” receives information from the sensory system, the spinal cord, and other parts of the brain

Question 10

Recognition

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measure of retention in which one need to identify, rather than recall, previously learned in formation

Question 11

Recall

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measure of retention in which the person must remember, with few retrieval cues, information learned earlier

Question 12

Relearning

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measure of retention that the less time it takes to relearn information, the more that the information can be retained

Question 13

Priming

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the activation, often unconscious, of a web of associations in memory in order to retrieve specific memories

Question 14

Deja Vu

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is the false sense that you have already experienced the current situation

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Mood Congruent memory

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the tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with our current mood

Question 16

Ebbinghaus

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learned list of nonsense syllabus and measured how much the subject retained when relearning the list, 20 min up to 30 days, Forgetting Curve

Question 17

Proactive Interference

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the disruptive effect of something you already have learned on your efforts to learn or recall new information

Question 18

Retroactive Interference

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is the disruptive effect of something recently learned on old knowledge

Question 19

Repression

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is an example of motivated forgetting in that painful and unacceptable memories are prevented from entering onsciousness. In psychoanalytical theory, it is the basic defense mechanism.

Question 20

Misinformation effect

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is the tendency of eye witnesses to an event to incorporate misleading information about the event into their memories

Question 21

Source Amnesia

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refers to misattributing an event to the wrong source