Memory

Question 1

The process in which sensor input is transformed into an object of sorts that we can store or perform cognitive operations one

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Encoding

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This part of the nervous system mediates the processing of environmental input wither automatically or in a controlled, more deliberate way

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Perceptual processes of our nervous system

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This encoding encapsulate meaningful information about a stimulus

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Semantic encoding

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Refers to the effects of context on our ability to perceive subsequent stimuli
(Can be positive and negative)

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Priming

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Type of priming that occurs when stimulus inhibits the processing of subsequent stimuli

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Negative priming

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Stroop task

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Identify the color that is used to write a word depicting in another color.
Ex. The word “yellow” is written in red. You have to say red, not yellow

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Stroop task is an example of which priming

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Negative priming

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A technique that can be used to promote encoding in which complex stimulus is broken down into multiple small, more meaningful components that are much easier to encode.

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Chunking

Question 9

Breaking down phone number into 510-867-5309 instead of a linear sequence of ten numbers is using what type of encoding promoting technique

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Chunking

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A way to encode information by mentally mapping it onto an imagined space, with multiple rooms, hallways, and so on

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Method of loci

- performed by professional memorizers

Question 11

The hypothesis that psychological arousal restricts our focus of attention is associated with which psychologist

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J.A. Easterbrook

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Type of memory that is virtually instantaneous, the idea here is that in any given moment in time, we’re taking in and temporarily storing a vast amount of information that will decay quickly, without rehearsal, or a conscious decision y to pay attention to or to reinforce the memory

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Sensory memory

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This type of memory describes our ability to store information on that time scale , and it’s generally thought to have a relatively small capacity

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Short term memory

Traditional guideline: we can hold roughly 5 to 9 items in our short-term memory

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A type of memory that focuses more on the cognitive and attention processes that we use to perform mental operations on information that we’re holding in our short-term memory

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Working memory

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The 3 main types of long-term memory

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1. Semantic or explicit memory
2. Procedural or implicit memory
3. Episodic memory

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A type of long-term memory that refers to memory of specific pieces of information (this is the kind of memory that would pay dividends on trivia night)

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Semantic memory (also known as explicit and declarative memory)

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A type of long-term memory that refers to the memory of how to do something. And example would be how to ride a bike (it will be difficult or even impossible to state in explicit terms how to ride a bike)

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Procedural or implicit memory

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A type of long-term memory that relates to ur memory of experiences

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Episodic memory

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Refers to the phenomenon many of us have experienced of having an extremely vivid and detailed memory of important moments in our lives, either positive or negative ones.

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Flashbulb memory

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Refers to the ability to a remember as stimulus on great detail after a relatively short exposure

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Eidetic memory

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Refers to how how a highly-detailed visual image can remain in our perception briefly (a second or so) after the stimulus itself is removed or changed

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Iconic memory

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Refers to memories related to plans to do something in the future

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Prospective memory

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This suggests that when a concept is brought to mind, activation spreads across adjacent nodes of a conceptual network

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Spreading activation

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A general term used for ways in which we organize our knowledge and perceptions about the world

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Schemas

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Occur when we have a memory piece of knowledge that is, in and of itself, perfectly correct, but for which we misattribute the source.

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Source monitoring errors

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The process of calling upon our memories and stored knowledge

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Retrieval

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Difference between recall and recognition. Which one is thought to be easier?

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Recall is an active process while recognition is a passive process. Recognition is thought to be easier

Question 28

Speed and accuracy in recall and recognition tasks can be used to probe those schemas, as ____________ ____________ primes us to more quickly retrieve concepts that are adjacent to already-activated concepts

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Semantic activation

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The tendency to recall items at the beginning of a list rather than the middle

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Primacy effect

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The tendency to remember the items at the end of the list more than the middle

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Recency effect

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Unites the primacy and recency effect by pointing out that, in general, the extreme ends of a list are more favorable than in the middle if a list in terms of promoting recall

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Serial position effect

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Describes how we are more effective at recalling information when our learning process is spaced out than when we try to learn everything in one big rush

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Spacing effect

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Proposes that studying multiple modalities (like visual learning and text-based learning) is more effective than using a single modality because our brain codes visual, auditory, and semantic representations separately

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Dual-coding effect

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Refers to when information that we subsequently obtain can effect how we remember an event

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Misinformation effect (specific to episodic memory)

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A model in which we encode information and then reproduce it as needed
- and insufficient models that is at best an oversimplification of how memory works

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Reproductive memory

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A model which states that we build our memories based on our perceptions of ourselves and others, information that we have about context of events, and so on.

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Reconstructive memory

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False memories are often not acts of deliberate deception; instead could be the product of what?

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Cognitive reconstruction

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Formalizes the insight that forgetting is a fact of life, but repeated rounds of learning cause the forgetting process to slow down and for more information to be consolidated into long-tern memory

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Ebbing has forgetting curve

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When memories and pieces of knowledge can enter into conflict with each other

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Interference

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Type of interference in which older memories inhibit the consolidation or retrieval of new memories
This is the “you cannot teach an old dog new tricks”

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Proactive interference

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Type of interference in which new memories or knowledge Ine there fear with older knowledge

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Retroactive interference

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Refers to more generalized processes of memory loss: not losing isolated bits of information, but losing memories of entire experiences, periods of time, and/ poor broad swaths of information

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Amnesia

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Inability to remember previous events

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Retrograde amnesia

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Inability to form new memories

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Anterograde amnesia

Question 45

Underlying causes have not been fully elucidated but neurofibrillary tangles involving tau proteins and plaques formed of beta-amyloid proteins are characteristic of the disease

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Alzheimer’s disease

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Alzheimer’s disease can only be definitely diagnosed by?

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Examining brain tissue- not always performed

Question 47

Early manifestations of this disease involve forgetfulness and short-term memory loss, but the disease progresses to involve more sever anterograde and retrograde amnesia as well cognitive deficits, difficulties thinking and speaking, and emotional disturbances.

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Alzheimer’s disease - no known cure

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This disease causes anterograde and retrograde amnesia, but is also marked by a tendency for confabulation, or elaborate fictional stories .

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Korsakoff’s syndrome

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Korsakoff’s syndrome is caused by?

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Thiamine or vitamin B1

Question 50

T or F. Memory loss is an inherent part of aging

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False. Aging does tend to reduce fluid intelligence and the pace of acquiring declarative knowledge. But it should not cause the loss of previously-acquired semantic knowledge, or impair the ability to deploy crystallized knowledge

Question 51

The mechanism underlying memory land learning is thought to be the development and evolution of

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Synaptic connections- could include formation, strengthening and reinforcement of these connections as well as pruning

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It has been proposed that insufficient synaptic pruning may be a factor implicated in the development of conditions such as?

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Austin’s

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The ability of the brain to retire itself in response to learning new information or to compensate for disease or injury

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Neuroplasticity

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The primary driver of neuroplasticity

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Changeability of synaptic connections

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