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27 Cards in this Set
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Long Term Memory |
-unlimited storage from minutes to a lifetime |
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Elaborative Rehearsal |
-efforts to encode info from working memory to LTM |
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How do we code verbal info? |
-based on meaning -recall meaning and context of each word |
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More elaborately encoded= |
better the memory |
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Organization by content |
group related things together |
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Chunking |
enlarge chunks of info |
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Link Method |
-form mental image by linking things together |
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Method of Loci |
-imaginary walk along a familiar path items remembered are associated with certain locations |
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Key Word Method |
-associate familiar word with new word by generating an image |
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LTM storage |
-hippocampus and surrounding cortex |
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What does hippocampus do in regards to LTM? |
-consolidates new info -links memory stored in separate parts of brain |
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Explicit Memory |
-conscious (aware) recollection |
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Episodic Memory |
-personal experiences- dated-autobiography |
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Semantic Memory |
-general facts: undated encyclopedia |
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Implicit Memory |
-skills you can do without conscious recollection (walk, breath, write) |
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Retrieval Failure |
-inability to find info (most common) |
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Storage Failure |
-actual loss of info (not common) |
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Context Retrieval Cue |
-easier to retrieve info if you're in the same context you were when it was encoded (study in classroom where you take exam) |
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State-Dependent Memory |
-better recall when you're in the same internal sate as when the info was encoded |
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Mood-Congruent Memory |
-memory is better for info consistent with your current mood (remember sad stuff when sad) |
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Interference |
-difficulty retrieving info because of competition with other info |
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Greater Interference |
-intervening material most similar -more material accumulates over time |
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Retroactive memory |
-new info impairs retention of old info (kicks out old stuff) |
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Proactive Memory |
-prev info interferes w/ retention of new info |
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Amnesia |
-loss of memory usually caused by something physical |
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Retrograde amnesia |
-lose memories of events occurring prior to onset of amnesia (loss of memories already established) |
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Anterograde Amnesia |
-loss of memories for events occurring after onset of amnesia (inability to form new memories) -affects explicit memory |
