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Ch 6 and 7 Memory and Cognition Flashcards

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memory

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active system receiving info from senses, puts info into usable form, organizes it, stores it away

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basic memory process breakdown

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encoding of neural info from sensory info; storage; retrieval

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information-processing model

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most comprehensive model; details encoding, storage, and retrieval as memory sequence

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parallel distributed processing model

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encoding, storage, and retrieval are simultaneous; related to artificial intelligence and connectionism

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levels-of-processing model

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we remember what we’ve thought about deeply, thought about meaning

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iconic sensory memory

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visual memory; can hold everything you can see at one time; memory doesn’t last long (1 sec); helps see surroundings as continuous

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eidetic memory

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can see something they just saw, again

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photographic memory

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not really, eidetic memory is rare; just means they have a good memory

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echoic sensory memory

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hearing memory; smaller capacity than visual; only hears what can be heard at one time; memory lasts longer than visual (4 secs)

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Short-Term memory

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if sensory information is deemed important to hold onto, it goes to STM; held 12-30 secs;

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STM and selective attention

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STM determines what is most important stimuli to store in the STM

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Encoding of STM

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is literally a talking or sound within your head

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Capacity of STM

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about 7 pieces of information, so if you chunk info, you can hold more STM

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maintenance rehearsal

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repeating something to remember it, info stays in STM until rehearsal stops

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memory interference

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when rehearsal is interrupted, or capacity is exceeded, can’t encode

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Long-Term memory

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when information is intended to be kept permanently; theoretically we have unlimited storage, so everything is stored but not always free to be retrieved

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Encoding of LTM

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as images, sounds, smells, tastes; BUT mostly stored as meaningful concepts; can be through maintenance rehearsal, but usually elaborative

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elaborative rehearsal

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transfer STM to LTM by connecting new info to existing and known info

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Nondeclerative/Implicit LTM

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skills and habits; procedural and gained through practice and experience; hard to consciously explain

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Declerative/Explicit LTM

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information that makes up knowledge; easily made conscious

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Semantic Declerative LTM

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anyone can know, knowledge of concepts, learned

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Episodic Declerative LTM

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personal history, autobiographical memory; updated and revised constantly so that unimportant things disappear (can’t remember everything that has happened to you)

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Semantic network model

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when learning something, info is stored near closely related things; we can access things simultaneously because of the parallel distributed processing model

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prospective memory

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remembering that we need to perform a task later

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retrieval cues
stimuli to remember, the more cues associated to something, the easier to remember it; anything can be a cue
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encoding specificity
association between surroundings and remembered info
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context of encoding specificity
remember something better when you're in a similar environment that the memory was formed in
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state-dependence of encoding specificity
memories formed during a similar physiological/psychological state are easier to remember in that state; when you're fighting a friend, you remember bad things about them
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recall
memories prompted with no external cues (fill in the blank question)
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recall failure
when you struggle to recall, but it feels like "its on the tip of your tongue"; can't be pulled into the auditory STM to recall it
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serial position effect
info at the beginning and end of a list/word is remembered better
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primary effect
first things are remembered because there's nothing in the STM already
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recency effect
allows you to remember end because of what was just heard/seen is still in the STM
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recognition
memories prompted with cues and matching the cues to what's known in memory; easier than recall
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visual recognition
is VERY accurate
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false positive recognition
when you think you recognize something because of a similar stimulus
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Automatic Encoding
some memories require no effort to be encoded; but the more time passes, the more the LTM has been modified, the more inaccuracies
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constructive processing
each time something is recalled, a memory is rebuilt from encoder info and sometimes things are added or excluded
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hindsight bias
people falsely believe that they would've predicted something before being told about it
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misinformation bias
a retrieval issue, if given new information it will change the memory (eyewitness accounts)
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false-memory syndrome
creation of false memories through suggestion by others (hypnosis); memories must be plausible...BUT through false positive feedback implausible things can be made plausible
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forgetting
the ability to forget is necessary for sanity
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Ebbingaus and Forgetting
made a curve of how long it takes to forget random nonsense syllables in a list
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distributed practice
a better way to form memories, learning over time is better
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Memory trace
physical change in brain when memory was formed
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memory trace decay theory
if traces go unused, they decay; "use it or lose it" memory
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interference theory
there's too much information in the way of the memory so you can't retrieve it
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proactive interference
previously learned material interferes with new learning
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retroactive interference
new material interferes with old learning material
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memory and the brain changes
memory is a change in receptor sites, sensitivity of the synapse, and proteins in neurons
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consolidation
brain changes over time to form a memory
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hippocampus and memory
forms declerative LTMs only
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retrograde amnesia
loss of memory from injury backwards; consolidation is interrupted; unfinished consolidation is lost
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anterograde amnesia
loss of memory from the injury forwards; in dementia and concussions; symptoms include repetitiveness
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Alzheimers and memory
type of dementia; anterograde amnesia at first and then retrograde; acetylcholine neurotransmitter
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Infantile amnesia
early memories are implicit and nondeclerative only; not brought to consciousness easily; explicit memory doesn't form until 2 yo
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consolidation time period
can take seconds, minutes, days, months or years; that's why amnesia of memories occurs for many time lengths
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hyperthymesia
when someone remembers everything
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tip of tongue phenomena
recall failure
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Elizabeth Loftus
proved that eyewitness counts are wildly unreliable because of constructive processing
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mood congruent memories
memories that are best remembered with context in similar mood states
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motivated forgetting
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transience
natural decay of memories over time
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absent-mindedness
lapse of attention leads to bad encoding or forgetting
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blocking
some sort of interference causes temporary forgetting
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misattribution
attribution of memories to incorrect sources, believing a memory
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suggestibility
incorporation of incorrect information into memory due to leading questions and deception
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persistence
memories that can't be forgotten, drives you crazy
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misinformation effect
incorporation of incorrect information into memory due to leading questions and deception
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framing
how a question is worded to influence problem-solving
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mnemonic device: method of loci
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mnemonic device: peg method
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LAD
schema for human language
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grammar
rules of language
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morphemes
units of meaning: count each unit of meaning plus one for the whole word
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phonemes
units of sound
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overregularization
over simplification of grammar rules
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linguistic relativity hypothesis
language influences thought, Whorf's hypothesis
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hierarchical storage
superordinate, basic, subordinate
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superordinate thinking
abstract concept
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basic thinking
more specific example
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subordinate thinking
most specific level of a concept
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script thinking
a schema but for a familiar sequence
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convergent thinking
one answer, all lines point to it
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divergent thinking
starts at one point, comes up with many solutions
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H.M.
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Clive Wearing
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Chomsky
language acquisition device, all people have ability to communicate using syntax
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Whorf
language influences thought, linguistic determinism
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mental set
tendency to solve a problem the way that has been successful
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functional fixedness
fail to see an object for use in a different way than normal
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representative heuristics
stereotyping mental shortcut
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availability heuristics
estimating the probability of certain events
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prototype
concept that embodies the definition of a concept
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belief bias
preconceived beliefs lead to illogical reasoning
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priming
activation of info by first anticipating learning and then relearning it
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metacognition
process of thinking about how you think
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semantics
homophones, rules to determine meaning of sentence
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overextension
apply the same word to everything

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