Memory Flashcards

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The sensory registers

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Raw info collected by sensory systems

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Visual memory-icon

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Visual image held in visual register

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Visual memory- masking

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New info replaced old in under .25 sec

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Hearing memory - echo

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Auditory memory in temporal lobe

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Hearing - initial processing

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We select some info for further processing

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Hearing - attention

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Selecting specific info from a variety of possible inputs

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Filter theory of attention

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  1. ) need
  2. ) novelty
  3. ) interest
  4. ) emotion
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Short term memory

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Aka: working memory
Hippocampus
It is our Consciousness

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STM- capacity

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Can hold as much as can be repeated in 1.5-2 secs

7+ or -2 pieces of info

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STM- Duration

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Lasts about 20 secs if work is not done to maintain it

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STM- encoding

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Info sorted by type and relevance

Visual encoding capacity may exceed phonological

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Decay theory

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Passing of time causes the strength of memory to fade

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Consolidation

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Strengthening of a memory for LT storage

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Rote rehearsal

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Aka maintenance

Repeating the info to keep it in STM

Peoples first memonic device

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Elaborative rehearsal

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Relating new info to something we know

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Recall

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Increase in recall in the beginning info and the ending info w/o delay.

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Retroactive interference

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New info gets in the way of old info

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Proactive interference

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Old info gets in the way of new

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LTM - semantic

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General facts and word meaning

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Episodic - LTM

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Events that have specific meaning

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Ebbinghaus- spacing effect

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Learning is greater when studying is spread out over time not crammed

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Explicit memory

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Memory you can express in words

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Implicit memory

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You can’t express in words

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State dependent learning

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Mental state that one is in when you experience something that acts as a memory cue

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Bartlett’s schema theory

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People use schema to organize and present episodes

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Confabulation

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When you remember part of an episode and you fill in the holes with what makes sense on your schema

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Infantile amnesia

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  1. ) brain isn’t fully developed
  2. ) little to no language
  3. ) few schema to help organize
  4. ) no timeline
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Retrograde amnesia

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When the brain is damaged you might take out the memory from the hippocampus and you won’t remember what happened before the injury

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Anterograde amnesia

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Problem making new memories

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Hysterical amnesia (repression)

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Some even might be so disturbing that it is blocked from recall

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Eidetic memory

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Photographic memory

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Hyperthymesia

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Perfect memory

33
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Basal forebrain

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Binds various pieces together

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Kordalcoff’s syndrome

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Lack vitamin b and thiamine

Thalamus and hippocampus are much smaller

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SQ3R method

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Survey- outline entire situation 
Question- ask what you should know
Read for detail 
Recite in your own words 
Review- relate to own life