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Cognition: memory Flashcards

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sensory memory

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mental representation of how environmental events look, sound, feel, smell, and taste

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echoic memory

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brief sensory memory of audible sounds

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iconic memory

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brief sensory memory of visual images

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eidetic memory

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photographic memory; total recall; brief sensory memory of an image with high precision for a brief period of time

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short term memory

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remembering pieces of info for a short period of time (up to 30 seconds)

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working memory

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temporarily hold a limited amount of information at the ready for immediate mental use

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long term memory

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unlimited storage of information maintained for long periods, can even be for life

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capacity of working memory

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7 chunks, +/- 2

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encoding

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translating info so it can be stored

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automatic processing

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we can’t not encode some things

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effortful processing

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focus on it to learn it

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storage

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how information is kept

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maintenance rehearsal

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repeating it over and over again until it can be stored

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elaborative rehearsal

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relate info to something you know

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long term potentiation

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long lasting increase in synaptic efficiency following high frequency stimulation

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retrieval

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getting info out of stored memory and using it

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context dependent memories

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rely on a specific place to be accessed

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state dependent memories

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rely on emotional or mental state

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mood congruent memory

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rely on their particular mood

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flashbulb memory

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remember a scene exactly as it was like a picture

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episodic memory

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remember a specific episode (autobiographical)

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semantic memory

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info we just know (general knowledge)

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procedural memory

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performance of difference actions and skills

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explicit memories

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declarative; memories we know we have and can DECLARE (facts, general knowledge, experiences)

in hippocampus

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implicit memories

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non-declarative; no conscious recall, skills, conditioning

in cerebellum

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prospective memory

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remembering to perform a planned action or recall a planned intention

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decay

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fading away from memories

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infantile amnesia

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no episodic memories before age of 3

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source amnesia

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remembering the correct event, but the wrong context

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retrograde amnesia

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forgetting the past

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anterograde amnesia

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inability to make new memories

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organic amnesia

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damage to hippocampus/place in brain where the memory is stored

accident, disease

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inorganic amnesia

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amnesia due to a traumatic experience, accident

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Korsakoff’s Syndrome

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amnesia related to long term alcohol abuse

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HM

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seizure surgery caused by severe anterograde amnesia

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retrieval cues

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aspects of physical and cognitive environment which help recall

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proactive interference

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old info disrupts new

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retroactive interference

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new info disrupts old

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recognition

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identifying info that has been encountered before

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recall

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bringing something back to mind

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relearning

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learning again what has been forgotten

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repression

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the mind pushes away info as a defense mechanism

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serial position effect

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tendency to remember info that is at the beginning or end of a series

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primacy effect

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remember the first things we hear

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recency effect

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remember the most recent things we hear

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deep processing

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cognitive processing of a stimulus that focuses on meaningful properties

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shallow processing

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cognitive processing of a stimulus that focuses on memorization, repetition, rereading, highlighting

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mnemonics

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memory devices that help recall large pieces of info

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method of loci

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mnemonic device in which someone imagines a physical location (mental images associated with specific positions/locations)

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peg-word system

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mnemonic strategy to remember lists where each item is associated with a number-word pair

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