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16 Cards in this Set
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Anxiety
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An unpleasant emotional state where we feel something bad is going to happen.
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Capacity
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A measure of how much that can be held in memory.
STM Millers 7 +/-2. LTM potentially unlimited. |
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Central executive
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Monitors and coordinates all other metal functions in working memory.
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Chunking
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Grouping sets of digits and numbers together into more meaningful units (chunks). A memory technique.
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Cognitive Interview
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A police technique for interviewing eye witnesses, which encourages them to recall more information.
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Duration
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A measure of how long memory lasts before it is no longer available.
STM limited, Peterson and Peterson found just under 20 seconds. LTM potentially unlimited. |
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Encoding
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The way information is changed so that it can be stored into memory.
STM mainly acoustic. LTM mainly semantic. |
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Episodic buffer
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Receives input from many sources and temporarily stores this information in order to construct a mental episode of what is currently being experienced.
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Eyewitness Testimony
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Evidence provided in court by a person who witnessed a crime. The accuracy of EW recall may be affected during initial encoding, subsequent storage and eventual retrieval
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Leading questions
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A question that (either by form or content) suggests to the witness what answer is desired.
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Long-term memory
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This is the memory for events that have happened in the past. Has potentially unlimited duration and capacity.
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Short-term memory
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This is the memory for immediate events. Last for a very short amount of time unless they are rehearsed.
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Sensory store/memory
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Information at the senses. Attention must be paid in order to encode into STM. (The multi-store model).
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Phonological Loop
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Encodes speech sounds into the working memory, usually involving maintenance rehearsal.
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Visuo-spatial sketchpad
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Encodes visual information and their spatial relationships with each other.
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Word-length effect
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The observation that people remember lists of short words compared to long words.
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