Chapter 7 Flashcards
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how info is maintained in memory
storage
how info is pulled back out of memory
retrieval
how info gets into memory, forming a memory code
encoding
what do you need to do to move something from senosry memory to working memory
you have to pay attention
what can you do to keep something in working memory
rehearsal
sensory memory
preserves info in its original sensory form for a brief time
a limited capacity store that can maintain unrehearsed info for up to 20 sec
short term memory
has a capacity of .5-4 seconds long
sensory memory
capacity of 10-20 seconds
working memory
phonological loop
what you play in your head- rehearsing , v
what happened in the last 40 seconds
Episodic buffer
shifts attention from one thing to the next
Central Executive
Visuospatial Sketchpad
ability to keep representations in your mind
“emphasizes the meaning of verbal input”
Semantic encoding : deeper processing
ways to enrich the encoding process
elaboration, visual imagery, and motivation to remember
linking a stimulus to other info at the time of encoding
elaboration
visual imagery
the creation of visual images to represent the words to be remembered
unusually vivid and detailed recollections of momentous events that are not always really accurate
flashbulb memory
occurs when partcipants’ recall of an event they witnessed is altered by introducing misleading postevent info
Misinformation effect
what is a schema
an organized cluster of knowledge about a particular object or event abstracted from previous experience with the object or event
what is a source-monitoring error
when a memory derived from one source is misattributed to another source (eye witness testimony )
what is the decay theory
forgetting occurs because memory traces fade with time
occurs when new info impairs the retention of previously learned info
Retroactive interference
Repression
keeping distressing thoughts and feelings buried in the unconscious
