Chapter 6: Memory

Question 1

Memory

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Persistence of learning over time through storage and retrieval of information

Question 2

3 R’s of functioning memory

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Recall, Recognition, & Releasing

Question 3

Recall

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“Fill in the Blank” Retrieving Info

Question 4

Recognition

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“Multiple Choice” Identify stimuli that matches stored info

Question 5

Relearning

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Measure of the effort it takes to relearn info you studied before

Question 6

How does memory work?

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Encoding, Storage, & Retrieval

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Encoding

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Info changes to a way it can be stored

Question 8

Storage

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Info is held in a way that allows it to be later retrieval

Question 9

Retrieval

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Reactivating and recalling info

Question 10

Memory Step 1

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Sensory Register (Memory)

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Memory Step 1.5

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Attention

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Memory Step 2

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Short Term Memory (STM)

Question 13

Memory Step 2.5

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Encoding

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Memory Step 3

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Long Term Memory (LTM)

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Memory Step -2.5

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Retrieval

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Sensory Register (Memory)

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Large Capacity, Filters select details to sent to STM

Question 17

Attention

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Gateway to STM, Selects incoming information for further processing

Question 18

Inattentional Blindness

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Forgetting stimuli that’s right in from of us

Question 19

Short Term (STM)

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Working Memory

Question 20

Auditory Rehearsal

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Repeating a password to remember it

Question 21

Executive Functions

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Choosing want to attend to respond to

Question 22

Visospatial “Sketchpad”

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Rearranging room furniture in your mind

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Latent Learning

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Cognitive Map

Question 24

Chunking

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Organizing data into manageable units

Question 25

We can remember

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7 +/- 2

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Memory decays

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after 12 seconds

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Serial Positioning Effect

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We tend to recall the first and last items on a list

Question 28

Scheme

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A set of beliefs or expectations about something based on past experiences

Question 29

Long Term Memory (LTM)

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Store vast amount of info that can stay permanently

Question 30

Memory may be stored

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by look or sound but mostly by meaning

Question 31

Rote Rehearsal

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Repetition

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Elaborative Rehearsal

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Connecting to what we already know

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2 types of LTM

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Explicit and Implicit

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Explicit (Declarative)

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Episodic and Semantic

Question 35

Episodic

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Experienced Events

Question 36

Semantic

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Knowledge and Concepts

Question 37

Implicit (Non-declarative)

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Procedural and Emotional Conditioning

Question 38

Procedural

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Skills and Actions

Question 39

Explicit Memories

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Facts and Experiences we consciously know (Effortful Processing)

Question 40

Implicit Memories

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We are not fully aware of them (Automatic Processing)

Question 41

Memory is a

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Reconstructive Process

Question 42

Memories are altered

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Every time we recall them

Question 43

Altered again when we

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reconsolidate the memory

Question 44

The Misinformation Effect

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Ways you ask questions can skew someones memory

Question 45

Priming

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Retrieval is affected by the activation of our association

Question 46

Primary triggers

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A thread of association "Invisible memory"

Question 47

We Interpret our surrounding from

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our unconscious memories

Question 48

Procedural Memory

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Conditioned associations - LTM

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Imagination Inflation

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Picturing an event can make it seem like a real memory

Question 50

Iatrogenic

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Disease is caused by the treatment itself

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Storage

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Changes in how nerves link to each other and creates neural networks

Question 52

Retrieval & use of explicit memory

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Working memory or executive function

Question 53

Explicit Memory Processing is

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Directed by the frontal lobes

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Encoding and storage of memory is facilitated by

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Hippocampus

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What consolidates memory?

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Hippocampus

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Cerebellum forms and stores

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our Conditioned Responses

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Basal Ganglia

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Controls movement, forms & stores memory "Muscle Memory"

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Memory Decay

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Memory is never used, recalled, or restored

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Memory is not stored as a file but as

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Web of associations

Question 60

Tip of the tongue

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Retrieval failure

Question 61

Prevent Memory Loss

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Multiple associations, Many retrieval cues, Context

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State dependent memory

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Memories tied to emotional state that can trigger different memories

Question 63

Interleaving

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Moving between bits of information

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Metacognition

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Thinking of our own thinking