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32 Cards in this Set
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Short term memory |
Your memory of immediate events |
Recent |
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Long-term memory |
Your memory for events that have happened in the past |
Past |
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Capacity |
A measure of how much can be held in memory |
How much? |
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Coding |
The way information is changed so that it can be stored in memory |
Change |
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Duration |
A measure of how long a memory lasts before it is no longer available |
How long? |
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Multi-store model |
A theoretical model of memory based on three separate memory stores, and how information is transferred between them |
Unitary stores |
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Sensory register |
Information collected by your sensory organs (only retained for a brief period of time- less than half a second) |
Senses |
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Working memory model |
A theoretical model explaining the memory used when working on a task |
Working |
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Central executive |
Monitors abd coordinates all other mental functions in working memory |
Everything |
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Episodic buffer |
Temporarily stores information, integrating it in order to construct a mental episode of what is being experienced. |
Store |
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Phonological loop |
Codes speech and sound (maintenance rehearsal) |
Sounds |
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Phonological store |
Holds the words you hear (inner ear) in the phonological loop |
Store |
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Articulary process |
Repeats words heard or seen (like an inner voice) which is a form of maintenance rehearsel in the phonological loop |
Repeat |
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Visuo-spatial sketchpad |
Codes visual informatiom in terms of sepate objects as well as the arrangement of these objects in the visual field |
See |
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Visual cache |
Stores information about visual items in the visuo-spatial sketchpad |
Visual |
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Inner scribe |
Deals with spatial relations which stores the arrangement of objects in the visual field, in the visuo-spatial sketchpad |
Spatial |
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Episodic memory |
Personal memories of events |
personal |
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Declarative memory |
Facts and knowledge (split into procedural memory and semantic memory ) |
Facts |
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Procedural memory |
Memory of how to do things, eg. riding a bike |
How |
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Semantic memory |
Shared memories for facts and knowledge, eg. Ice is made out of water |
Facts |
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Interference |
An explanation for forgetting in terms of one memory disrupting the ability to recall another |
Disrupt |
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Proactive Interference (pi) |
Past learning interferes with current attempts to learn something |
Past |
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Retroactive Interference (ri) |
Current attempts to learn to something interfere with past learning |
Current |
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Cues |
Cues are things that serve as a reminder. May be environmental or related to mental state. |
Links |
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Retrieval failure |
Occurs due to the absence of cues, serving as an explanation for forgetting |
Can't retrieve memory |
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Eyewitness testimony |
The evidence provided in court by a person who witnesses a crime |
To identify perpetrator |
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Leading question |
A question that, either by its form or content, suggests to the witness what answer is desired |
Leads in direction |
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Misleading information |
Supplying information that may lead a witness' memory for a crime to be altered. |
False info |
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Post-event discussion |
A conversation between co-witnesses or an interviewer and an eyewitness after a crime has taken place which may contaminate a witness' memory of events. |
Contaminate memory |
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Anxiety |
An unpleasant emotional state that is often accompanied by increase in heat rate and rapid breathing |
Me |
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Cognitive interview |
A police technique for interviewing witnesses to a crime which encourage them to recreate the original context in order to increase the accessibilitg of stored information |
Improve recall |
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Cognitive interview components |
1. Mental reinstatement of the original context
2. Report everything
3. Change order
4. Change perspective |
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