Chapter 7.1 Flashcards
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What is a sleep illusion
False but compelling memory
What are the 3 types of memory
- Sensory memory
- Short term memory
- Long term memory
What is sensory memory
The brief storage of perceptual memory before its passed to short term memory
What is visual memory
Eidetic imagery
What is hearing memory
Echoic memory
What is short term memory
Memory system that retains information for limited durations
What is decay
Fading of memory information over time
What is retroactive interference
The interference of older information due to the learning of newer information
What is proactive interference
The interference of newer information due to the learning of older information
What is the magic number
-Amount of information retained
-7 plus or minus 2 pieces of information
What is chunking
Organizing information into meaningful groups
Rehersal
Repeating info to extend to duration of retention
What are the 2 types of rehersals
- Maintenance rehearsal
- Elaborative rehearsal
What is maintenance rehearsal
Repeating stimuli in their origninal form
Elaborative rehearsal
Elaborating on the stimuli we need to remember by linking it in a meaningful way
What is long term memory
The retention of memory for extended periods of time
What is primacy and recency
-Primacy effect
- Remembering the words at the start of a set better
-Recency effect
- Remembering the words at the end of a set better
What is the serial positioning curve
Graph depicting peoples ability to recall info on a list based off of primacy and recency
What are the 4 types of long term memory
- Semantic memory
- Episodic memory
- Explicit memory
- Implicit memory
What is Semantic memory
Our knowledge of world facts
What is episodic memory
Recollection of events in our life
What is explicit memory
The process of recalling information intentionally
What is implicit memory
The process of recalling information we don’t remember deliberately
What are the 4 types of implicit memory
- Procedural (procedures)
- Memory for how to do things - Priming
- Ability to identify a stimuli quickly after seeing it before - Conditioning
- Memory learnt from repatition - Habituation
