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Memory

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The persistence of learning over time through the storage and retrieval of information

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Russian journalist S

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Amazing memory

Recall up to 70 digits when avg human can only recall 7 maybe 9

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To remember any event three things must happen

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Encoding
Storage
Retrieval

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Encoding

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The processing of information into the memory system

Ex extracting meaning

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Storage

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The retention of encoded information over time

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Retrieval

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The process of getting information out of memory storage

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Connectionism

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Views memories as emerging from interconnected neural networks

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Order of memory chain

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Record to be remembered info as fleeting sensory memory
Then process into short term to encode for rehearsal
Then finally into long term for retrieval

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Sensory memory

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The immediate, very brief recording of sensory information in the memory system

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Short term memory

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Activated memory that holds a few items briefly before the information is stored or forgotten

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Working memory

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A newer understanding of short term memory that focuses on conscious, active processing of incoming auditory and visual spatial information, and of information retrieved from long term memory

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Parallel processing

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The processing of many aspects of a problem simultaneously, the brains natural mode of information processing for many functions

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Automatic processing

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Unconscious encoding of incidental information

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What do we automatically process

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Space
Time
Frequency
Well learned information (language)

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Effortful processing

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Encoding that requires attention and conscious effect

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Rehearsal

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The conscious repetition of information, either to maintain it in consciousness or to encode it for storage

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Ebbinghaus

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Study his own learning
List of syllables
More frequently repeated, fewer repetitions to relearn

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Spacing effect

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The tendency for distributed study or practice to yield better long term retention than is achieved through massed study or practice

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Massed practice

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Produce speedy short term learning and feelings of confidence

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Distributed study time

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Produces long term recall

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Testing effect

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Repeated quizzing of previously studied material

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Serial position effect

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Our tendency to recall best the last and first items in a list

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Recency effect

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Last items still in working memory so recall because recent

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A primacy effect

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After a delay and shift from the last items their recall is best for the first items

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T or F, we don't recall literal text, but what we encoded
True
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Visual encoding
The encoding of picture images
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Acoustic encoding
The encoding of sound, like sound of words
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Semantic encoding
The encoding of meaning, like meaning of words
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Which encoding worked better?
Semantic encoding -deeper processing, produces better irecognition than shallow processing like visual and acoustic
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What does amount remembered depend on
Time spent learning and on making it meaningful
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Self reference effect
Remember stuff more when it if referenced to ourselves
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Imagery
Mental pictures, a powerful aid to effortful processing, especially with semantic encoding
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Rosy retrospection
Recalling the high points while forgetting the mundane may explain it
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Mnemonic
Memory aids, especially those techniques that use vivid imagery and organizational devices
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Chunking
Organizing items into familiar, manageable units often occurs automatically
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Encoding hierarchy
Encoding (auto or effort) Into meaning, imagery, organization, Then organization into chunks, and hierarchies
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Iconic memory
A momentary sensory memory or visual stimuli, a photographic or picture-image memory lasting no more than a few tenths of a second
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Echoing memory
A momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli, if attention is elsewhere sounds and words can still be recalled within 3 or 4 seconds
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Short term memory capacity limit is called
Magic number seven, plus or minus two, can typically only store that many bits of info
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T or F, at any given moment , we can consciously process only a very limited amount of information
True
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T or F, Our capacity for storing long term memory is essentially limitless
true
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T or F, Memories reside in specific, precise spots
False, we do not store memories in single specific spots
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Long term potentiation
An increase in a synapses firing potential after brief, rapid stimulation. Believed to be a neural basis for learning and memory
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What evidence supports that LTP is a physical basis for memory
Drugs that block LTP interfere with learning When given LTP enhancing drug, rats learn a maze with half the usual mistakes When injected with chemical that blocks LTP preservation, it erases recent learning
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Glutamate
neurotransmitter boosts memory and enhances synaptic communication (LTP)
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CREB
Protein that can turn genes on or off which enables LTP
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Trauma hormone for LTP
Emotions in flashbulb memory
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What effect can traumatic events have on memory
Can be seated into brain, traumatic experiences can be remembered forever
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Flashbulb memory
A clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event
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What does prolonged stress do
The stress can act like acid, corroding neural connections and shrinking the hippocampus
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Amnesia
The loss of memory
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H. M
Brain area involved in laying new conscious memories of facts and experiences was removed Became skilled at tracing mirror outline, but no recall of learning skill
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Implicit memory
``` Non declarative Retention independent of conscious recollection Procedural Motor skills Classical conditioning Processed by cerebellum ```
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Explicit memories
Declarative Memory of facts and experiences that one can consciously know Personal experience events Processed in hippocampus
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Hippocampus
A neural center that is located in the limb Jc system, helps process explicit memories for storage
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Damage to left hippo
People have trouble remembering verbal information but they can recall visual designs and location
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Right hippo campus damage
People have trouble remembering visual designs and location but they can recall verbal information
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Hippocampus is active during
Slow wave sleep as memories are processed and filed later for retrieval Hippo is a loading dock
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Infantile amnesia
The implicit reaction and skills we learned during infancy reach far into our future yet as adults we recap nothing of our first three years
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Recall
A measure of memory in which the person must retrieve information learned earlier, as on a fill in the blank test
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Recognizing
A measure of memory in which the person need only identify items previously learned, as on a multiple choice test
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Relearning
A measure of memory that assesses the amount of time saves when learning material for a second time
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Retrieval cues
Anchor points you can use to access the target information when you want to retrieve it later
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Priming
The activation often unconsciously of particular associations in memory Invisible memory without explicit remembering
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How does context affect memory retrieval
Putting yourself back in the context where you experiences something can prime your memory retrieval
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Déjà vu
That eerie sense that I've experienced this before. Cues from the current situation may subconsciously trigger retrieval of an earlier experience
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How is emotion a retrieval cue
Emotions can later prime us to recall its associated events
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State dependance memory
What we learn in one state may be more easily recalled when we are again in that state
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Mood congruent
The tendency to recall experiences that are consistent with ones current good or bad moods
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AJ, Jill price
Can remember everything since she was 14
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Three sins of forgetting
Absent mindedness-in attention to details leads to encoding failure Transcience-storage decay over time Blocking-inaccessibility of stored information
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Three sins of distortion
Misattribution-confusing source of information Suggestibility-lingering effects of misinformation Bias-belief colored recollection
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One sin of intrusion
Persistence-unwanted memories
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Who discovered the forgetting curve
Ebbinghaus
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Forgetting curve
Course of forgetting is initially rapid and then levels off with time. Explanation for this is the gradual fading of the physical memory trace
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Three reasons memories and forgotten events can't be found
They weren't encoded Stored memories decayed Or they are inaccessible because don't have enough info to retrieve them
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Proactive interference
The disruptive effect of prior learning on the recall of new info Forward acting
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Retroactive interference
The disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of old information Backward acting
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Positive transfer
Old information can facilitate our learning of new info, knowing Latin can help learning French
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What is the way to remember proactive and retroactive
PORN
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Who proposed we repress painful memories
Signing Freud
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Repress
In psychoanalytic theory | The basic defense mechanism that vanishes from consciousness anxiety arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories
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T or F, we don't just retrieve memories, we reweave them
True
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What did Elizabeth loftus do
Showed the traffic incident, those who asked smashed instead of hit said they went faster
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Misinformation effect
Incorporating misleading information into ones memory of an event
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Imagination inflation
Repeatedly imagining nonexistent actions and events can create false memories
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Jean Piaget
A nursemaid thwarting his kidnapping was actually false
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Source amnesia
Attributing to the wrong source an event we have experienced, heard about, read about, or imagined
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What are the hearts of many false memories
Source amnesia and misinformation effect
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Difference between memories of experience and imagination
Experience memories have more detail than imagined Imagined are restricted to the gist of the event-associated meanings and feelings. False memories sometimes outlast true ones
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Cognitive interview technique
Asks witness to visualize scene Then witness recalls event without interruption Then the detective can ask evocative questions
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Can children be accurate eyewitnesses
Yes, if questioned about their experiences in neutral words that they understand, then they can accurately recall what happened
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Those committed to protecting abused children and wrongly accused agree on the following
``` Sexual abuse happens Injustice happens Forgetting happens Recovered memories are common place Before age 3 unreliable Hypnosis/drug unreliable mems Real or false mems can be upsetting ```
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What happened to Elizabeth loftus
Told she found her mom drowned face down, actually her aunt did She was molested by babysitter
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Memory improving suggestions
``` Study repeatedly Make the material meaningful Activate retrieval cues Use mnemonic devices Minimize interference Sleep more Test your own knowledge ```

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