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7- Long-Term Memory Flashcards

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How much space does LTM have?

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Unlimited

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How much storage does LTM have?

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Infinite

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How does James define LTM?

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Secondary memory- absent info from consciousness

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What 2 mechanisms are involved with LTM?

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Potentiation and depotentiation

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What does potentiation do?

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Maintain memories and strengthen synapses

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What does depotentiation do?

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Forget memories and weaken synapses

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What kind of disorder is amnesia?

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Permanent and pervasive

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How is amnesia characterised?

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A disconnection between STM and LTM

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What are the 3 ways Parkin defines amnesia?

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Intact STM
Mild retrograde amnesia
Severe anterograde amnesia

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What is retrograde amnesia?

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Damage to memory for events that occurred before onset of amnesia

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What is anterograde amnesia?

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Damage to memory for events that occurred after onset of amnesia

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What are the 2 primary divisions of LTM?

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Non-declarative/implicit memory, and declarative/explicit memory

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What are the 2 divisions of non-declarative memory?

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Procedural memory and repetition priming

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What are the 2 divisions of procedural memory?

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Skill learning and habit learning

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What are the 2 divisions of declarative memory?

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Semantic and episodic memory

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What are the 2 divisions of episodic memory?

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Prospective and autobiographical memory

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What is the oldest type of LTM?

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Non-declarative memory

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18
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How is non-declarative memory accessed?

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Unconsciously

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Can non-declarative memory be reported verbally?

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No

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What is non-declarative memory based on?

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Previous unconscious experience

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What is non-declarative memory about?

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Knowing how

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Is non-declarative memory intact in amnesia?

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Yes

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What is procedural memory?

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Knowledge of skills we gain over time

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What is procedural memory about?

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How to perform skills and actions

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Is skill learning conscious or unconscious?

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Unconscious

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26
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What is skill learning mostly associated with?

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Motor performance

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27
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How is skill learning acquired to become automatic?

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Over time by practice

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How is habit learning acquired?

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Over time by repeated associations between stimuli and responses

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29
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What does habit learning involve?

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Learning a set of associations that can’t be memorised

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30
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How do you change a habit?

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Repetition of new behaviour

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31
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What does priming refer to?

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An implicit memory effect

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What is an implicit memory effect?

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Exposure to a stimulus affects a subsequent response

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33
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What is the time taken for repetition priming associated with?

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Time taken to make information accessible based on information provided

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34
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What are the 2 types of priming?

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Perceptual and conceptual

35
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What is perceptual priming?

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Stimulus form is salient

36
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What is conceptual priming?

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Stimulus meaning is salient

37
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What does declarative memory involve?

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Conscious recollection

38
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Can declarative memory be reported verbally?

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Yes

39
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What is declarative memory based on?

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Our previous conscious experience

40
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What is declarative memory about?

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Knowing that

41
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Why is declarative memory damaged in amnesia?

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Because it is very sensitive

42
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What are the 3 ways of testing declarative memory?

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Recognition, cued recall, free recall

43
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What is the recognition test?

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Verifying the correctness of information

44
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What is the cued recall test?

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Recall information with the help of cues/hints

45
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What is the free recall test?

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Recall information without cues/hints

46
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What memory is involved in episodic memory?

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Memory for events, experiences, and episodes

47
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What does episodic memory enable us to do?

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Consciously re-experience past events

48
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What does episodic memory rely on for recall?

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Temporal context

49
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What do we rely on episodic memory for?

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Communication

50
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What is the problem with reconstructing past events?

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It is not always accurate

51
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What are the 3 key properties of episodic memory according to Tulving?

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Associates with our subjective sense of time
Connects to self
Associates with autonoetic consciousness of self-knowing

52
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What is prospective memory about?

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Imagining future events

53
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What does prospective memory allow?

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Forward planning and carrying out intended actions

54
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What is the ability involved from prospective memory?

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Ability to remember to remember

55
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How is prospective memory triggered?

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Self-initiated

56
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Is prospective memory interrupted in amnesia?

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Yes

57
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What are the 2 different types of prospective memory?

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Event-based and time-based

58
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What is the most personal aspect of LTM?

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Autobiographical memory

59
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What is autobiographical memory for?

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Personally experienced events and episodes, as well as life histories

60
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How is autobiographical memory time-marked?

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As belonging to a particular phase in our lives

61
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What is autobiographical memory a combination of?

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Episodic and semantic memories

62
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What is personal semantic information?

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Facts about ourselves

63
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What is personal episodic information?

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Personally experienced effects

64
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What is false memory?

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Inaccurate recollections of events that didn’t occur or distortion of events that occurred

65
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How does imagination inflation strengthen false memory?

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By repeating it

66
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What is deja vu?

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An illusion of autobiographical memory

67
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What are the 3 mechanisms involved in false memory?

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Split perception, implicit memory, Gestalt familiarity

68
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What is split perception?

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A brief glance before conscious seeing

69
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What is implicit memory?

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A forgotten experience but we think it is familiar

70
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What is Gestalt familiarity?

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Similar to a previous experience

71
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What does semantic memory store?

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General knowledge of facts, concepts and language including symbols, their meaning, and their associations

72
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What doesn’t semantic memory rely on for recall?

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Temporal context

73
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What is semantic memory?

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Knowing and not remembering

74
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How is semantic memory opposite to episodic memory?

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It is not personal

75
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What is permastore?

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A stabilisation of knowledge in semantic memory that resists forgetting

76
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What is metamemory?

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The supervisor of our memories

77
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What ability does metamemory have?

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To monitor and inspect the content of memory

78
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What is metamemory about?

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Our knowledge about what we stored in memory

79
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What does metamemory allow us to do?

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Know whether we know something

80
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Does metamemory remain intact after amnesia?

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Yes

81
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What happened to HM?

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Parts of his temporal lobe were removed to reduce epilepsy

82
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What were HM’s 2 symptoms after surgery?

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Intact short-term memory
Impaired memory for ongoing events

83
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What 3 aspects of LTM did HM teach us about?

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Particular brain regions are responsible for LTM
LTM encompasses different abilities
Memory is separable from language, perceptual and cognitive functions

PSY1017- Cognitive Psychology with Research Methods 1 (38 decks)

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