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Exam 2 - Chapter 6 Flashcards

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_________ – If we don’t have a word for something we cant think about it

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Wharf hypothesis

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_________ – can be split into a strong and weak argument

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Wharf hypothesis

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Wharf hypothesis -

_________ - If we don’t have a word for it than we can understand it – Bad Idea

_________ - Language can kind of influence our way of thinking about things – Good Idea

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  • Strong

- Weak

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LTM is complicated—a lot of different memory _________

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types

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Working memory – Range of _________

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seconds

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Long term memory – Seconds to _________

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infinity

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_________ : the first few words are remembered

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Primacy effect

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_________ : the last few words are remembered

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Recency effect

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Serial position curve –

_________ effect: Long term memory
_________ effect: Short term memory

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  • Primacy

- Recency

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Recency reflects what is in _________ memory

—previous items have been ‘_________’ out

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  • working

- bumped

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Primacy reflects what is in _________

—mental rehearsal, _________ words get more attention

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  • LTM

- early

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_________ related to long term memory

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Primacy

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_________ delay – sitting with nothing distracting during delay

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Unfilled

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_________ delay – having a task or something distracting during the delay

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Filled

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Slow presentation of the word list may _________ the Primacy Effect but not the Recency Effect

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Improve

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fMRI studies show hippocampal regions active when recalling _________ words on the list, but not for words at the _________ of list

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  • early

- end

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_________ : the form in which stimuli are represented in the brain

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Coding

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_________ —keeping a pattern in WM visualizing a friend’s face

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Visual coding

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_________ —repeating a number in WM ‘hearing’ a song to remember the lyrics

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Auditory coding

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_________ —remembering numbers as a infamous year (e.g., 1492) getting the ‘gist’ of what someone is saying

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Semantic coding

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Henry Molaison (HM) (_________ )

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epilepsy

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Henry Molaison (HM) (epilepsy)
- \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_  removed in both hemispheres
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Hippocampus

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Henry Molaison (HM) (epilepsy)

  • Hippocampus removed in both hemispheres
  • Working Memory intact, but could not transfer to _________
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LTM

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KF (_________)

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semantic

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KF (semantic) | - _________ damage from a motorcycle accident
Parietal lobe
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KF (semantic) Parietal lobe damage from a motorcycle accident -Normal LTM, but poor _________ (digit span = 2 items)
WM
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Clive Wearing | -Hippocampus damage due to herpesviral encephalitis (_________ )
brain inflammation
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Clive Wearing -Still able to play & conduct music, but can’t form new memories (‘wakes up every 20 seconds’)—can’t transfer WM to _________
LTM
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Clive Wearing | Semantic memory intact, but _________ memory impaired
episodic
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_________ – every day was like first time meeting doctors
Henry Molaison (HM)
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_________ – separated memory in to components: episodic and semantic
Endel Tulving
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_________ – special moment in life
Episodic
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_________ – george washington facts
Semantic
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Episodic (‘mental time travel’)—vivid/rich memories, including _________
emotion
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Semantic (‘no travel’)—don’t often remember where you learned information…_________
just know it
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_________- – means there’s two separate mechanism
Double dissociation
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Semantic and Episodic are two different distinct types of _________
memory
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Episodic can become _________ | -Students cheating; breakups
semantic
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Knowledge affects experience | - _________ knowledge guides experience—which affects _________ memory
- Semantic | - episodic
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_________ : memory for ourselves that includes semantic and episodic
Autobiographical memory
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Our sense of self drives what we attend to—can lead to memory _________
errors
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_________ : memories that we are aware of, can verbalize
Explicit memories
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_________ memories: memories that we may not be aware of, cannot verbalize
Implicit
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Implicit memories: memories that we may not be aware of, _________ verbalize
-cannot
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Explicit memories: memories that we are aware of, _________ verbalize
can
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Perceptual learning: | _________ – We are really sensitive to our environment, we pick up on statistical regularities which effect how we act
Context effects
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Perceptual learning: Context effects – We are really sensitive to our environment, we pick up on statistical _________ which effect how we act
regularities
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Explicit we can _________ explain
verbally
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_________ - | -Often, thinking about them, impairs the memory
Procedural (Implicit) Memories
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_________ - | Playing an instrument or video game
Procedural (Implicit) Memories
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With amnesia _________ memory is still left intact
implicit
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_________ – why you can tie a tie for yourself but not on someone else
Implicit memory
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Procedural (_________) Memories
Implicit
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_________ - | -HM buzzer hand doctor, didn’t want to shake his hand but didn’t know why
Procedural (Implicit) Memories
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_________ : the presentation of one stimulus (priming stimulus) changes the response to another stimulus
Priming
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Priming: the presentation of one stimulus (priming stimulus) _________ the response to another stimulus
changes
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_________ – Something you’ve recently been talking about is more likely to come to mind or something you have seen more often in life
Priming
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Priming – Something you’ve recently been talking about is more likely to come to _________ or something you have seen more often in life
mind
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_________- Participants scanned magazine articles, but weren’t told to pay attention to ads on the opposite page Higher ratings given for ads that they were exposed to, compared to new ads
priming
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Priming: _________- -People rate statements as being true, just because they have heard them before
Propaganda effect
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Classical Conditioning | _________ memory
Implicit

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