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What's memory? |
The capacity to encode, store and retrieve info |
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Sensory memory |
Momentary duration must be changed to another form or its lost |
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Short term |
15-25 seconds, info gets bumped out or decays unless rehearsed |
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Long term memory |
Relatively permanent storage of useful info that's made it through sensory and short term memory |
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Types of long term memory |
Procedural and declarative |
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Procedural memory |
How to do things like drive a car |
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Declarative memory |
Information |
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Subsets of declarative memory |
Semantic (facts) and episodic (events and personal experience) |
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What's the levels of processing theory |
Suggests the way material is initially perceived and analyzed determines how well it's recalled |
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Shallow processing |
Processed in Terms of physical/sensory aspect |
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Intermediate processing |
Translated to meaningful units |
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Deepest processing level |
Analyzed in terms of meaning |
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Reconstructive memory |
Memory is encoded as representation |
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What's a schema |
Theoretical memory structure. It's an organized cluster of all info pertaining to a particular subject |
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Why do we forget? |
Decay theory, interference, encoding failures |
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What's the decay theory? |
After a few hours we forget most of the initial info presented to us, but it plateaus after that |
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Why is recognition easier than recall? |
In recall you need to fine the info out of thin air and in recognition you do not |
Mental enery |
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Can lists of words activate schemas? |
Yes. In class this is why the list of words associated with sleep made you think the word sleep was on the list |
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Can schemas pollute memory |
YES |
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Can you tell them difference between polluted and clean memories? |
NO |
Why the lady thought she was lost as a child even though she wasn't |
