Chapter 10- Memory

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explicit memory

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conscious, intentional recollection of an even or of an item of information

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recall

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the ability to retrieve and reproduce from memory previously encountered material

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recognition

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ability to idnetify previously encountered material

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implicit memory

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unconcious retention in memory, as evidenced by the effect of a previous experience or previously encountered information on curretny thoughts or actions

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priming

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method for measuring implicit memory as evidenced by the effect of a previous expereince or previously encountered information on current thought or actions

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source amnesia

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inability to distinguish what you originall experienced from what you heard or were told about an event later

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confabulation

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confusion of an event that happened to someone else with one that happpended to you, or a belief that you remember something when it never actualyl happened

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reminscence bump

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older people tend to remember adolescence and early adulthood, but not midlife

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relearning method

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method for measuring retention that compares the time required to relearn material with the time used in the initial learning of the material

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Three-box model

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Sensory, short term, long term

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parallel distributed processing model

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model of memory in whih knowledge is represented as connections among thousands of interacting processing units, distribute in a vast network, and all operating in parallel

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pattern recognition

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identification of a stimulus on the basis of information already contained in long-term memory

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working memory

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a memory system comprising short-term memory plus the mental processes that control retrieval of information from long-term memory and interpret that info appropriately for a given task

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procedural memories

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memories for the performance of actions or skills

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declarative memories

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memories of facts, rules, concepts, and events, they include semantic and episodic memories

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semantic memories

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memories of general knowledge, including facts, rules, concepts and propositions

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episodic memories

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memories of personally experienced events and the contexts in which they occurred

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long term potentiation

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long-lasting increase in the strength of synaptic responsiveness, thought to be a biological mechanism of long-term memory

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consolidation

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the process by which a long-term memory becomes durable and stable

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frontal lobes

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short term memory

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prefortonal cortex, temporal lobes

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encoding of words, pictures

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hippocampus

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forms LTM (declarative) may bind together memory

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hippocampus

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forms LTM (declarative) may bind together memory

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cerebellum

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formation and retention of simple classically condition responses

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cerebral cortex

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storage of long term memories

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maintenance rehearsal

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rote repetition of material in order to maintain its availability in memory

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elaborative rehearsal

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association of new information with already stored knowledge and analysis of the new info to make it memorable

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deep processing

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encoding of info, the processing of meaning rather than simply the phsycial or sensory features of a stimulus

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mnemonics

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strategies and tricks for improving memory, such as the use of a verse or a formula

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decay theory

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the theory that info in memory eventually disappears if it is not acessed; it applies better to short-term than long-term

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replacement

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theory that new info replaces old info

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interference

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confusion of info

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Retroactive

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meet julie first, meet judy second, call julie judy

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proactive interference

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Spanish interferes (what i learned before) with the french im trying to learn now

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cue-dependent forgetting

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the inability to retrieve info stored in memory because of insuccicient cues for recall

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state-dependent theory

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the tendency to remember something when the rememberer is in the same physical or mental state as during the origial experience

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psychogenic amnesia

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partial or complete loss of memory for threatening info or traumatic experiences

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repression

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in psychoanalytic theory the selective involuntary pushing of threatening or upsetting info into the unconcious

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childhood infantile amnesia

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inability to remmeber events and experiences that occurred during the first two or three years of life

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Why do kids not have memory

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lack of a sense of self, impoverished encoding, focus on routine, children's ways of thinking about the world