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1
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define acquisition

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gaining new info and placing into memory, and what we learn depends on what we already know

2
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define working memory

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active store using attention and manipulating and organising thoughts whilst maintaining LTM items related to the current task

3
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what does the STM do

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pays attention to info in sensory stores

4
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studies on KF found what

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verbal STM poor visual fine, LTM unaffected so STM isn’t one unit and STM and LTM have different neural structures

5
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what is LTM encoding

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creating memory representations semantically

6
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what is LTM consolidation

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making memory representations stable through elaborative rehearsal

7
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define retrieval

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reactivating stored and stable memory traces

8
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what are features of working memory

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active, limited in size, easy to get info in/out, contents displaced easily when thinking of new topic

9
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what is working memory’s capacity

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7 +/-2 but uses phonological loop and central executive

10
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what is working memory operation span

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measuring working memory when it’s active through reading span which is # of sentences the last words of can be recalled

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what are concurrent articulation tasks

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repeating sounds aloud, preventing speech production including subvocalisation

12
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what happens in concurrent articulation tasks

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only phonological loop used and span drops to 3-4

13
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what lobe is responsible for artic loop

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left parietal

14
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what lobe is responsible for the phon loop

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left frontal

15
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what does the artic loop involve

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rehearsing in our head what we want to say

16
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what is the phonological similarity effect

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recall of characters is harder if there is more phonological similarity

17
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what is a phonological store

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passive storage for holding a representation/internal echo of recently heard and self produced sounds which lasts for 1-2 secs

18
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what is subvocalization’s role in the phon store

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silent speech maintaining auditory image

19
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describe the visuo-spatial sketchpad

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visual cache, inner scribe recreating spatial relationships and creating mental images of new images or items from LTM

20
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what is the episodic buffer’s role

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helping central executive organise ingo chronologically

21
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what does the central executive do with info in each stores

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organises info into correct stores and determines what’s done with each stores info

22
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how is the central exec linked to LTM

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brings items from LTM into consciousness

23
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list 4 other roles of the central exec

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cog control
online manipulations
decision making and reasoning
making/implementing plans to reach goals

24
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what did Robbins et al find out about when people were playing chess at the same time as other stuff

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random # gen using central exec had worse quality
tapping clockwise using VSS - worse quality
repeating see-saw - no diff compared to control

25
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in the primacy effect, why are we more likely to remember info we’re first exposed to

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use rehearsal so transferred to LTM but as more info arrives, attention is split to memorise so so later info rehearsed less

26
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what increases the primacy effect

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familiar and common words

27
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why do we remember things better with the recency effect

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because it’s already in working memory and are thinking about it

28
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why is information in working memory readily available

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no more info incoming to displace it

29
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how do nonsense trigrams reflect the serial position effect

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backwards counting eliminates recency effect so found that earliest words had highest recall when counting and earli/latest words had highest recall when not counting

30
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what effect would slowing down the list of presentation have

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WM unaffected as it’s about capacity not duration so words exposed to earlier are recalled less

31
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3 types of memory

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episodic, semantic, implicit

32
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4 types of implicit memory

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procedural, priming, perceptual learning, classical conditioning

33
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what is perceptual learning

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perceptual systems recalibrating due to new experiences

34
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what is priming

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changes in perceptions and belief due to previous experiences

35
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describe lexical-decision task

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being shown words then given string of letters to decide if word or not
RT faster if related to previously presented words, showing memorisation without awareness

36
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describe what HM’s memory was like

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normal WM but couldn’t make new episodic/semantic memories but could learn new implicit ones

37
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how is Corsi block tapping used to measure visuo-spatial memory

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repeating sequence of taps of blocks without numbers

normal span 5-7

38
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describe mirror drawing and HM

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reduced errors over days he practiced when doing drawing only being able to see hand in mirror reflection

39
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describe fragmented pictures and HM

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fragmented pictures recognised better after practice and made few errors for each block but remembered task done before

40
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what is dysexecutive syndrome

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damage to PFC leading to cog control and central exec processing abilities to be lost

41
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what regions are responsible for encoding as shown by a study

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medial temporal lobes, including hippocampi/amygdale as more activity for remembered words at encoding

42
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what study was used to test consolidation

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presenting famous faces from recent to old decades found more neural activity in MTL for recent decade faces as less consolidated

43
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what is the hippocampus important for

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holding spatial/temporal context for episodic memories

44
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in amnesiacs, what type of memory is damaged

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explicit as hippocampus damaged since patients feared blue light associated w loud sound as felt fear but couldn’t recall the light’s colour

45
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what brain structure is important for implicit memory

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amygdala as patients with this damage had no fear response to blue light but recalled light’s colour

46
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results from visuo-spatial sketchpad research where a probe appeared after a delay and parts asked if it was in the same place as the target

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visual cortex activity during delay and early visual activity enhanced when holding location in spatial WM on brain side corresponding to the side

47
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define amnesia

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specific loss/impairment in LTM without loss in general intelligence or other cog function, usually after a stroke, accident, or neurological disease

48
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what type of amnesia is most common

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anterograde w varying degrees of retrograde

49
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what does brain damage affect

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learning/encoding of some memory types but not others

50
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in anterograde amnesia, what is affected

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explicit not implicit

51
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what is the temporal gradient of retrograde amnesia

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most recent memories most easily forgotten, and this is measured using famous faces task

52
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focal retrograde amnesia is what

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retrograde amnesia without anterograde amnesia

53
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what happened to KC’s memory

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had antero and retro but confined to episodic memories shown by learning new terminology but not remembering people or events during the time learning it

54
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why is there a distinction between the episodic and semantic memory typrs

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different processes for learning these memory types which we know isn’t due to time and exposure