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Week 9 Lecture Flashcards

1
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cognitive Psychology is . . .

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Processes involved in acquiring, storing and using information

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Consolidation

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  • Hippocampus is important for consolidation of memories
  • Stabilises memory after it is initially acquired.
  • is part of encoding and storage of memory function
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Auditory Memory Code

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Sequences of sounds such as a tune or a Rhyme

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Visual Memory Code

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Coded information such as pictures and images

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Semantic Memory Code

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Information stored in words and concepts and contextual associations

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Recall after 2 hours

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Structural/Shallow processing - 20%
Phonemic/Middle processing - 42%
Semantic/Deep processing - 82%

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Elements of Memory Storage

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Working Memory
Short-Term Memory
Long-Term Memory
Sensory Memory

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Episodic Memory

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Events that have happened to me

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Semantic Memory

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General Knowledge of what things are, facts, history etc

Things we are not involved in

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Procedural Memory

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How to do things, i.e. ride a bike, cook a meal, drive a car

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Basal Ganglia

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  • Used in Procedural Memory

- We perform an action over and over again like practicing sport or music

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Declarative Memory

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The things we know, can remember and declare. “I know the answer. I was first”

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Multi Store Model Memory System - Atkinson & Shiffrin (1968)

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  • Memory is an information processing system
  • The mind is like a computer
  • Memory has 3 stores
  • Sensory Register: Input comes in and we receive with our senses
  • STM: Through Rehearsal, using and repeating memory we direct it to LTM
  • LTM: we take memory from long term to Short term to recall it. and then repeat rehearsal
  • Interuption or lack of use can lead to information loss in each stage
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Challenge to Atkinson & Shriffrin (1968)

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  • Short term memory is not as simple as discussed in the Multi Store Model
  • working memory is very relevant to Short term memory
  • Sensory registers are modality specific,ie auditory, visual etc
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Iconic Memory

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records visual information

disappears in 1-2secs

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Echoic Memory

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Records Auditory information to the sensory register

lasts about 4 secs

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Short Term Memory

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  • holds small amount of information (7+/-2)
  • can be increased if chunking
  • Rehearshal is necessary to encode memory in STM
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Maintenance rehearsal

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Repeating something over and over to remember in

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Elaborative Rehearsal

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Applying knowledge and thinking about how this input is important supports encoding memory to STM & LTM

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Chunking

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  • Increases the amount of information held in STM

- Grouping information into chunks to increase the amount of information that can be stored

21
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Working memory has two components . . .

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  • Maintenance, holding and storing information

- Manipulation, using memory and working with information

22
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Atkinson & Shiffrin’s Memory Model (1968)

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  • Questions why people can do a visual task and a verbal task at the same time
  • Questions why people have dificulties doing two verbal or two visual taks at the same time
  • STM may really be two separate components that work together
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Cross-Modal multi tasking

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Doing a verbal and a Visual task at the same time

- Using two modalities at the same time

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Within-Modality Multi Tasking

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  • Doing two verbal and two visual tasks at the same time
25
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Baddely’s Central Executive Model

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  • Working Memory
  • Short Term Memory
  • Phonological Loop
  • Episodic Buffer
  • Visuospatial Sketch Pad
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Working Memory is Similar to Short Term Memory

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  • Can manipulate Information

- can be used to plan and manipulate behaviour.

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Phonoligical Loop

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Holds information about Speech

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Visuospatial Sketch Pad

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Spatial and Visual Encoding

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Episodic Buffer

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  • Temporary Storage System

- Can hold and integrate inputs from Phonological loop and Visuospatial Sketch Pad

30
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Explicit LTM

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  • Are Declarative
  • Episodic
  • Semantic
  • General Knowledge
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Implicit LTM

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  • Non Declarative
  • Priming
  • Procedural
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Declarative Memory

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  • A subsystem of LTM
  • stores facts, information and personal life events
  • brought to mind verbally or visually
33
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Episodic Memory

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  • subjective experience of events
  • time stamped
  • memory as it happens
  • like an autobiography
34
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Semantic Memory

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  • General knowledge of facts

- Like an encyclopedia

35
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Memory Retrieval

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  • Locate information in memory and bring it to consciousness
36
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Serial Position Effect

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The tendency to remember information at the beginning of a set (primacy) or at the end of a set (recency) rather than what is in the middle

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Context Effect

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  • Encoding Specificity

- Match the context of encoding to the context in which you have been asked to retrieve it.

38
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State Dependent Memory

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  • Mood states affect memory
  • we remember positive things when happy
  • We remember sad things when sad.
  • strongly influenced by personal experiences as they can be charged with emotion
39
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Automaticity

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Being able to recall information automatically and without effort

40
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Misinformation effect

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  • Our ability to recall events can be influenced by later events
  • people tend to introduce innacuracies
41
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How is memory reconstructed

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  • Schema
  • Misinformation
  • Expertise
  • Flashbulb Memories
42
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Schema

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  • Affect how we remember by influencing the encoding of information
  • shaping the way information is reconstructed
43
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Distortions of memory involve

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  • Leveling: Simplifying of a story
  • Sharpening: The overemphasis of certain details
  • Assimilating: changing details to better fit our own knowledge
44
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Decay Theory

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  • Memory can fade without neural action to keep it from weakening
  • Neuro/Biological Theory
45
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Interference Theory

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  • Conflict between new and old information
      • Proactive: Old information interferes with new
      • Retroactive: New information interferes with old
46
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Motivated Forgetting

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  • It may be too difficult or painful to remember so we forget to avoid pain
  • Repressed Memories
  • Denial
  • Not encoding things that are difficult
47
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What is Consolidation

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  • Neurons in Hippocampus forms new memories

- Use Glutamate and Acetylcholine to consolidate memories

48
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Cerebellum and Memory

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Essential for:

  • Procedural Memory
  • Those acquired through Repetition and classical conditioning’
  • LInked to Basal Ganglia
49
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Cerebral Cortex

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  • Sensory Memories

- Associations between sensations

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