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26 Cards in this Set
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Sensory Register |
System in which brief impressions from any of senses is stored fleetingly, disappearing within seconds if not transferred to short-term memory |
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Tachistoscope |
Projects slide very quickly, some people see nothing. Person would say word that had been projected. Word had been stored unconsciously |
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Iconic Memory |
Visual sensory memory |
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Echoic Memory |
Auditory sensory memory |
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Eidetic Memory
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Photographic sensory memory
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Short Term Memory (less than 1 minute) |
Working memory. Immediate recollection of stimuli just perceived, usually only retained momentarily |
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Workbench Memory |
Memory that needs to be sorted into long term memory |
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Serial Position Effect (4 related terms) |
Information presented in a series, most people will remember first info and last info. |
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Very Limited Capacity |
Miller, phone company, 7+2 (phone numbers) |
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Chunking |
Grouping items into longer meaningful units to make them easier to remember |
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Episodic Memory (Long Term Memory) |
Personally experienced traits, autobiographical memories about one's own experience |
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Semantic Memory (Long Term Memory) |
Facts and abstract knowledge, recall of facts, info read in books etc |
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Procedural Memory (Long Term Memory) |
Skills and habits, how to do things (ride a bike, swimming etc) |
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Rehearsal (Encoding/Storage) |
Shallow processing. Holding info in short term by rehearsing or repeating it |
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Elaboration (Encoding/Storage) |
Deep processing. To think about info in more elaborate way, consider/discuss it more |
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Organization (Encoding/Storage) |
Deep processing. Organizing info so it can be remembered more easily |
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Visual Imagery (Encoding/Storage) |
Deep processing. Pictures/images help to remember things |
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Mnemonic Devices |
1. Method of Loci- linking info to locations 2. Peg word- word linked to number 3. Acrostics- Never Eat Shredded Wheat 4. Acronyms- CIA, FBI, UM |
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Decay Theory (forgetting) |
If memory is not used/reinforced, it possibly disappears. Use it or lose it |
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Interference Theory* (forgetting) |
Not forgotten, just other info is interfering with it |
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Motivated (Active) Forgetting (forgetting) |
The forgetting is done on purpose, block out info for a reason. Freudian slip |
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Retrograde |
Amnesia. Memory loss of events that occurred before brain trauma |
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Anterograde |
Amnesia. Memory loss of events that occurred after brain trauma |
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Eye Witness Testimony |
Used in courts, notoriously inaccurate. Elizabeth Loftus investigated this. Implanted memories- depending on how question is asked, new memory can be created |
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Schema |
Mental framework or cognitive framework. Individuals use to make sense out of stored info |
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ENGRAM with Planaria, 1962 |
Memory trace, how memories are encoded in the brain. Planaria taught to go left or right - if animal is cut in half, the two new animals will still know to go in the same direction as taught |
