Gateways To The Mind And Behavior - Coon Chapter 7

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Memory that is seen/heard; holds large amounts of information for only 1-2 seconds

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Sensory memory

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Memory that holds a small amounts of information for 12-30 seconds 

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Short Term Memory

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Memory system that is used for a relatively permanent storage

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Long Term Memory

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Memory that is seen

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Iconic

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Memory that is hear

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Echoic

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Selective attention to sensory memory transfer information to:

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Short term memory

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Links new information with existing memories and knowledge in LTM; Can revise memories on basis of reasoning or adding new, possibly false information

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Elaborative Processing

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False memories that a person believes are true or accurate

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Pseudo- memories

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Occurs when the origins of a memory are misremembered 

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Source Confusion

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Automatic encoding due to unexpected, highly emotional event

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Flashbulb memories

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Idea that similar learning and retrieval conditions improve memory

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Encoding specificity 

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Environment impacts memory (time, location, environment)

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Context- dependent memory

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Psychological/physiological internal state of memory (emotions)

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State- dependent memory

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Failure to properly store information

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Forgetting

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Failure to pay attention to and process information into STM

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Encoding failure

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Failure to effectively connect new information with prior knowledge due to porr elaboration

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Rehearsal Failure

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What are the 3 memory processes?

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Encoding, Storage, and Retrieval

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Loss of memory due to disuse

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Trace decay

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Information learned earlier interfered with information learned later

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Proactive Interference

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Information learned later interfered with information learned earlier

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Retroactive Interference

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Partial/ complete loss of memory of the past

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Retrograde amnesia

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Trouble forming new memories

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Anterograde amnesia

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Automatic forgetting of painful memories

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Repression

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Inability to recall the first 3 years of life 

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Infantile Amnesia

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To supply or spontaneously reproduce information/memories

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Recall

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Correctly identify previously learned material 

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Recognition

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Physical change in brain when memory is formed

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Engram (memory trace)

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Area of the brain responsible for forming Long Term Memories (Limbic System)

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Hipoccampus 

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Process by which relatively permanent memories are formed in the brain

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Consolidation

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Memory that can seem accurate, but is not

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False memory

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A memory that a person is aware of having; a memory that is conciously retrieved

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Explicit memory

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A memory that a person does not know exists; a memory that is retrieved unconsciously

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Implicit memory

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Long term memories of conditioned responses and learned skills

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Procedural memory

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The part of long-term memory containing specific factual information

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Declarative memory

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A subpart of declarative memory that records impersonal knowledge about the world

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Semantic Memory

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A subpart of declarative memory that records personal experiences that are linked with specific times and places

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Episodic memory

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Another name for short-term memory, especially as it's used for thinking and problem solving

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Working memory