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14 Cards in this Set
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Short Term Memory
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-Primary memory
-the contents of consciousness -The contents of short-term memory are what is or just was on your mind -STM is your current or extremely recent conscious experience |
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Long Term Memory
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-Secondary Memory
-past experience that is not conscious but could be |
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Elaborative Rehearsal
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-relating info to other known
-involves meaning |
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Rehearsal
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-control process
-functions primarily to keep info active in STM -functionally extend duration of STM |
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Chunking
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-functionally increase STM capacity
-interaction betw STM & LTM |
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Rehearsal Prevention
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-prevents maintenence
-ex: an activity that prohibits the participant from repeating the test items |
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Brown-Peterson Study
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-Show 3 items for 3 secs each
-Recall -Immediate -Or following varying delay intervals in which the subjects count backwards -Rehearsal prevention -prevents maintenance -e.g. counting backwards |
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Decay
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-results from failure to rehearse, disuse
-forgetting |
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Interference
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-produced by the intervention of other material betw the presentation of a to-be-remembered event and th memory test
-implies that memory failure results from competition among stored info. |
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The Serial Position Effect
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-early items are recalled well & last items
-items in middle are not recalled well |
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STM coding
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phonological coding
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LTM coding
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Semantic coding
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Retrograde Amnesia
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events before trauma are forgotten
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Anterograde Amnesia
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new memories cannot be formed after trauma
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