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Test 2: Memory Flashcards

1
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What is memory?

A

Registering, retaining, and recalling information

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2
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What is inputting information or learning it?

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Encoding

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3
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What is the consolidation or saving the memory?

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Storage

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What is remembering or executing the memory?

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Retrieval

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5
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What is semantic encoding?

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Making it meaningful

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What is context dependent memory?

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When cues in the environment during encoding become dependent to the enviromejnt so recollection in another environment is difficult

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What is state dependent memory?

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When psysiological or emotional states during encoding become associated with learning, so different situations with different emotional cues, is difficult

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8
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What is associatinf the thing you’re trying to remember with something that means something to you?

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Semantic encoding

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9
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What describes the more you go over the material, the better the storage, or more neurons fire efficiently?

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Long term potentiation

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10
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Essay is what form of retrieval?

MC?

A

Recall

Recognition

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What is iconic memory and echo if memory in sensory?

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Visual

Auditory

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What is the difference between declarative and non declarative memory?

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Consciously aware

Unconscious

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13
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What is the difference between semantic memory and episodic memory?

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Facts and figures

Episodes/events of life

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14
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What did the Ebbinghaus study find?

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Forgetting happens immediately and trails off quickly

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What is the serial position effect describe?

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First thing you learn you remember the most, the last thing you learn you remember the second in the middle you learn the least

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16
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What is the Decay in Memory?

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And less you go over something the greater the chance for forgetting

17
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What type of memory does the hippocampus involve?

A

Declarative

18
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What type of memory does the cerebellum involve?

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Nondeclarative

19
Q

In the H.M.study what type of memory did he lose and what type did he keep?

A

You could still remember procedural but could not learn new semantic.

20
Q

Is the difference between retrograde and anterograde?

A

Ret: can’t access LTM
Ane: can’t store new LTM

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