Chapter 5: Memory

Question 1

The means by which we retain and draw on information from our past experiences to use in the present; refers to the dynamic mechanisms associated with storing, retaining, and retrieving information about past experience.

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Memory

Question 2

Three Common Operations of Memory.

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Encoding
Storage
Retrieval

Question 3

Transform sensory data into a form of mental
representation.

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Encoding

Question 4

Keep encoded information in memory.

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Storage

Question 5

Pull out or use information stored in memory.

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Retrieval

Question 6

You produce a fact, a word, or other item from memory.

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Recall

Question 7

Selecting or identifying an item as being one that you have been exposed to previously.

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Recognition

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3 main types of recall tasks that are used in experiments.

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Serial recall
Free recall
Cued recall

Question 9

You recall items in the exact order in which they were presented.

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Serial recall

Question 10

You recall items in any order you choose.

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Free recall

Question 11

You are first shown items in pairs, but
during recall you are cued with only one member of each pair and are asked to recall
each mate; also called “paired-associates recall”.

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Cued recall

Question 12

The number of trials it takes to learn once again items that were learned in the past.

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Relearning

Question 13

You respond to stimuli presented to you and decide whether you have seen them before or
not; referred to as tapping receptive knowledge.

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Recognition-memory tasks

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You have to produce an answer, require expressive knowledge.

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Recall-memory tasks

Question 15

Participants engage in conscious recollection.

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Explicit memory

Question 16

We use information from memory but are
not consciously aware that we are doing so.

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Implicit memory

Question 17

The facilitation of your ability to utilize missing information.

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Priming

Question 18

Requires participants to maintain contact between an L-shaped stylus and a small rotating disk.

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Rotary Pursuit Task

Question 19

Subjects trace the outline of a shape they can only see in a mirror.

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Mirror Tracing

Question 20

This model assumes that implicit and explicit memory both have a role in virtually every response.

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Process-dissociation model

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3 memory stores.

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Sensory store
Short-term store
Long-term store

Question 22

Capable of storing relatively limited amounts of information for very brief periods.

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Sensory store

Question 23

Capable of storing information for somewhat longer periods but of relatively limited capacity as well.

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Short-term store

Question 24

Capable of very large capacity and of storing information for very long periods, perhaps even indefinitely.

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Long-term store

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Structures for holding information.

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Stores

Question 26

Information stored in the structures.

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Memory

Question 27

Concepts that are not themselves directly measurable or observable but that serve as mental models for understanding how a psychological phenomenon works.

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Hypothetical constructs

Question 28

A discrete visual sensory register that holds information for very short periods.

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Iconic store (sensory store)

Question 29

In this procedure, participants report every symbol they have seen.

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Whole-report procedure

Question 30

In this procedure, participants need to report only part of what they see.

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Partial-report procedure

Question 31

Mental erasure of a stimulus caused by the placement of one stimulus where another one had appeared previously.

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Backward visual masking

Question 32

Refers to the very long-term storage of information, such as knowledge of a foreign language and of mathematics.

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Permastore

Question 33

This framework suggests that memory does not comprise three or even any specific number of separate stores, but rather it varies along a continuous dimension in terms of depth of encoding.

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Levels-of-processing (LOP) framework

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Whose model is the LOP framework?

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Atkinson and Shiffrin’s

Question 35

Level of processing which basis is usually apparent features of the letters.

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Physical

Question 36

Level of processing which basis is sound combinations associated with the letters.

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Phonological

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Level of processing which basis is the meaning of the word.

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Semantic

Question 38

Participants show very high levels of recall when asked to meaningfully relate words to themselves by determining whether the words describe them.

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Self-reference effect

Question 39

Most widely used and accepted model today; establishes a more dynamic view, whereby working memory serves not only to hold information but also to process that information.

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Working-memory model

Question 40

Holds only the most recently activated, or conscious, portion of long-term memory, and memory storage it moves these activated elements into and out of brief, temporary.

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Working Memory

Question 41

5 elements of working memory.

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Visuospatial Sketchpad Phonological Loop Central Executive Subsidiary Slave Systems Episodic Buffer

Question 42

An element of memory that briefly holds some visual images; contains both spatial and visual information; information here decays rapidly.

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Visuospatial Sketchpad

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Logie (1995) suggested that this passively stores visual information, such as color and form.

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Visual cache

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Logie (1995) suggested that this retains movement information and is responsible for rehearsal of the information.

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Inner scribe

Question 45

An element of memory that briefly stores mainly verbal information for verbal comprehension and for acoustic rehearsal.

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Phonological Loop

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2 critical components of phonological loop.

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Phonological Storage Subvocal Rehearsal

Question 47

A component of phonological loop that holds information in memory.

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Phonological Storage

Question 48

A component of phonological loop which holds information by nonverbally practicing it.

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Subvocal Rehearsal

Question 49

A phenomenon where when subvocal rehearsal is inhibited, the new information is not stored.

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Articulatory suppression

Question 50

A phenomenon where we can remember fewer longer words compared with shorter words because it takes us longer to rehearse and produce the longer words.

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Word length effect.

Question 51

An element of memory that allocates attention within working memory; decides how to divide attention between two or more tasks that need to be done at the same time, or how to switch attention back and forth between multiple tasks.

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Central Executive

Question 52

An element of memory that perform other cognitive or perceptual tasks.

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Subsidiary Slave Systems

Question 53

An element of memory that explains how we integrate information in working memory, long-term memory, the visuospatial sketchpad, and the phonological loop; allows us to solve problems and reevaluate previous experiences with more recent knowledge.

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Episodic Buffer

Question 54

Used to remember information temporarily.

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Brief memory buffer.

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Two Kinds of Explicit Memory.

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Semantic memory Episodic memory

Question 56

Stores general world knowledge; memory for facts that are not unique to us and that are not recalled in any particular temporal context.

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Semantic memory

Question 57

Stores personally experienced events or episodes; used when learning lists of words or when recalling something that occurred to us at a particular time or in a particular context.

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Episodic memory

Question 58

A neuroscientific model which attempts to account for differences in hemispheric activation for semantic versus episodic memories.

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HERA (hemispheric encoding/retrieval asymmetry)

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A node that activates a connected node.

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Prime

Question 60

The resulting activation of the node.

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Priming effect

Question 61

Someone who demonstrates extraordinarily keen memory ability, usually based on using special techniques for memory enhancement.

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Mnemonist

Question 62

The experience of sensations in a sensory modality different from the sense that has been physically stimulated.

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Synesthesia

Question 63

A process of producing retrieval of memories that would seem to have been forgotten; referred to as “unforgetting”.

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Hypermnesia

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Severe loss of explicit memory.

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Amnesia

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3 types of amnesia.

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Retrograde amnesia Anterograde amnesia Infantile amnesia

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Individuals lose their purposeful memory for events before whatever trauma induces memory loss.

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Retrograde amnesia

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The inability to remember events that occur after a traumatic event.

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Anterograde amnesia

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The inability to recall events that happened when we were very young.

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Infantile amnesia

Question 69

Normal individuals show the presence of a particular function.

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Dissociations

Question 70

People with different kinds of neuropathological conditions show opposite patterns of deficits.

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Double dissociations

Question 71

A disease of older adults that causes dementia as well as progressive memory loss.

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Alzheimer’s disease

Question 72

A loss of intellectual function that is severe enough to impair one’s everyday life.

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Dementia

Question 73

Who first discovered Alzheimer’s disease?

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Alois Alzheimer (1907)

Question 74

A special kind of Alzheimer’s disease that is familial; has been linked to a genetic mutation.

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Early-onset Alzheimer’s Disease

Question 75

Appears to be complexly determined and related to a variety of possible genetic and environmental influences, none of which have been conclusively identified.

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Late-onset Alzheimer’s Disease