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Chapter 7 Flashcards

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Memory

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Collection of several systems that store information in different forms for differing amounts of time

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Atkinson-Shiffrin Model

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3 memory stores: Sensory Memory, Short term memory, long term memory
Stores: Retain information in memory without using it for any specific purpose
Control process: Shift information from one store to another

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Sensory Memory

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Memory store that accurately holds perceptual information for brief amount of time
Iconic (visual)-0.5-1s
Echoic (auditory) -5-10s
Spotlight of attention:
Small amount of information from sensory is sent to STM for further processing
Information out of spotlight not transferred, unlikely to be remembered (change blindness)

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Short Term Memory

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Memory store with limited capacity and duration
Approx 30s
Magical number: 7(+-2)units of info
Chunking
Organizing smaller units of info into larger meaningful units

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Long Term Memory

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(Encoding from STM to LTM)
Holds information for extended-permanent periods of time
Organization:
1.Semantic (meaningful categories)
2. How the word ‘sounds’ and ‘looks’
-tip of the tongue phenomenon
Retrieval: accessing memory LTM and returning to STM

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Serial Position Effect

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People are generally able to recall first few items from a list and last few items, but not middle items

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Proactive Inferference

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First information learned occupies memory
Leaves less resources for newer information to be remembered
(LTM)

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Retroactive Interference

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Recently learned information blocks older memories not yet encoded into LTM
(STM)

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During Recall(Primary)

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Hippocampal Activation
(Formation of LTM)

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During Recall(Recency)

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Brain regions associated with sensory (hearing, vision) more active

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Working Memory

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A model of short term remembering that includes a combination of memory components that can temporarily store small amounts of info for short period of time
Stimuli are encoded in a number of different ways
3 storage components
1. Phonological loop
2. Visuospatial Sketchpad
3. Episodic Buffer

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Phonological loop

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Storage component relying on rehearsal
-store info as sounds or auditory code

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Visuospatial Sketchpad

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Store component that maintains visual images and spatial layouts in Visuospatial code

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Episodic Buffer

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Storage component that combines phonological loop and Visuospatial Sketchpad into story like episodes
Allows you to organize and make sense of incoming stimuli

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Central Executive

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Control center of working memory
Coordinates attention and exchange of info among 3 storage components
Focuses attention on component most relevant to a person’s goals, interests and prior knowledge
Controlled by frontal lobe regions

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LTM systems: Declarative (Explicit) Memories

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Memories we are consciously aware of and can speak about
1. Semantic Memory
-Facts about the world
2. Episodic Memory
-organized as episodes
-first person

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LTM memory systems: Non-declarative (implicit) memories

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Unconscious behaviours
1. Procedural Memory
-learned patterns of muscle movement
2.Classical Conditioning
-potentially unconscious learning associations between two paired events/stimuli

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Long Term Potentiation(LTP)

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Increase in connectivity and communication between nerve cells that fire together
These strengthening synapses may be underlying mechanism allowing memories to form

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Consolidation

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Converting short term memories to long term memories in the brain
Cellular consolidation- connections between neurons becoming more permanent (via LTP)

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Cellular Consolidation

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Evidence suggests hippocampus plays a role in memory consolidation

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Amnesia

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Significant loss of at least one form of memory

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Anterograde Amnesia

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Inability to form new memories for events occurring after brain injury
-patient HM
Medial temporal lobes surgically removed (includes hippocampus, amygdala)
Couldn’t transfer new declarative memories from STM-LTM

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Retrograde Amnesia

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Memory for events preceding trauma or injury are lost

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Memory Storage

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Time and manner in which info is retained between encoding and retrieval
Active Process> stored memories can be updated regularly
Reconsolidation: Hippocampus functions to update, strengthen or modify existing LTMs

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Cross cortical storage

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LT declarative memories distributed through the cortex rather than localized to one brain region
New memories not established these networks more likely to be lost
>following trauma or brain injury

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Rehearsal

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Repeating information
Maintenance rehearsal: simply repeating information
Elaborative Rehearsal: thinking about meaning of information

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Levels of Processing (LOP) framework

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Our ability to recall information is most directly related to how it was initially processed

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Shallow Processing

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Encoding more superficial properties of a stimulus
-sound or spelling of word

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Deep Processing

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Encoding information about an item’s specific meaning or function
-Self reference effect
> how does the information relate to you?

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Retrieval

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Recognition: Identifying a stimulus or piece of information when presented to you (retrieval cues)
Recall: Retrieving information when asked but without information present during retrieval process

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Encoding Specificity Principle

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Retrieval most effective when conditions at time of encoding and retrieval are same
-retrieval cues

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Context dependent memory

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Retrieval is more effective when taking place in same physical context as encoding
-increase activity in hippocampus, prefrontal cortex

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State dependent memory

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Retrieval more effective when internal state matches state during encoding

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Mood dependent memory

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Retrieval more effective when mood matches mood during encoding

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Emotional memories

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Emotion-related aspects enhance memory of events
Tend to focus attention on emotional contexts of a scene
Emotion likely contribute to memory consolidation
Emotional arousal unrelated to stimulus can also influence memory consolidation

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Temporal Lobe

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Hippocampus: Memory consolidation
Amygdala: Activated by emotional memories, Can influence activity in temporal lobe> send input to hippocampus

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Flashbulb Memories

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Extremely vivid and detailed memory about an event and conditions surrounding learning of event
Not more accurate than regular memories
Confidence in accuracy increases

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The Forgetting Curve

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Most forgetting occurs right away
Rate of forgetting slows to point of almost nothing

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Schemas

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Organized clusters of memories that constitute a person’s knowledge/beliefs about events, objects and ideas

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Self schema

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Used to organize and encode self relevant info; process info about ourselves

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Constructive memory

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Process of remembering events
> first recall a generalized schema, then more specific details

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Memory Bias

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Different motivations can influence which schemas we access
Memories have potential to change

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False memory

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Remembering events that did not occur or incorrectly recalling details of event

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Misinformation Effect

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Information encoded after event can alter/become part of memory of original event

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Imagination Inflation

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Increased confidence in false memory following repeated imagining of event

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Guided Imagery

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Technique used to recover details of events unable to remember

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Deese-Roediger-McDermott(DRM) Paridgm

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Participants study list of highly related words>Semantic associations
List missing critical lure> obvious related word
Participants remember critical lure as part of list> intrusion

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Recovered Memory

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Memory of traumatic event suddenly recovered after blocking memory of event for long period of time

Controversy:
Debate about validity of recovered memories

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