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14 Cards in this Set
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Short Term memory
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5 and 9 unites, chunking helps you retain more; retain for 20 seconds if not repeated
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Primary Effect
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Remembering the beginning of a list
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Recency effect
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Remembering the end of a list
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Why are some things put in short term?
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Because our goal is efficiency; we want to get rid of the irrelevent stuff
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Improving Long Term Encoding
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Rehearsal and repetition; make things relevant to ourselves
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Storage in the long term
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We store semantics (meaning) and images; we organize semantic networks (items in memory system are linked together); develop with age
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Encoding failure
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We never actually encoded it
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Retrieval failure
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Recall vs. recognition
Recall: list scientists Recognition: given first letter (easier) |
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Proactive interference
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Prior information gets in the way of something new
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Retroactive intererence
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New information disrupts memory of something old
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Schemas
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Misremembering
Organized clusture of knowledge about a person or thing |
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Misinformation effect
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Using schemas to remember things incorrectly
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Implicit memory
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We remember things without awareness, we cannot answer with direct questions
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Source monitering errors
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Making attributions for a source of information; not remembering where you learned something
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