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36 Cards in this Set
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Memory |
The retention of the information or experience over time as the result of three key processes. |
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Encoding |
The first step in memory the process by which information gets into the memory storage |
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Divided attention |
Concerning testing on more than one activity |
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Sustained attention |
Also called vigilance the ability to maintain attention to a selected stimulus |
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Levels of processing |
A continuum of memory processing from shallow to intermediate to deep, sith deeper processing producing better memory |
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Elaboration |
The formation of a number of different connections around a stimulus at a given level of memory encoding. |
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Storage |
The renetention of information over time and how this information is represented in memory. |
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Atkinson shuffling theory |
theory stating that memory involves three separate systens |
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Sensory memory |
memory system that involves holding information from the world in its original sensory from only a instant |
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Short term memory |
Limited capacity memory system in which information is usually retained for only as long as 30 seconds |
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Working memory |
A three part system that allows us to hold info tempariky as we preform cof antivr tasks |
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Long term memory |
Also called declarative memory the conscious recollection or information such as specific facts or event sand at least in humans |
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Long term memory |
A relatively permanent type of memory that stores huge amounts of information for a long time |
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Episodic memory |
The retention of info about the where when and what of life's happenings that is how individuals remember life's episodes |
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Semantic memory |
A person's knowledge about the world including his or her areas of expertise |
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Implicit memory |
Also called mondeclaratice memory in which behavior is affected by prior experience without a concise recollect |
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Procedural memory |
Memory of skills |
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Priming |
The activation of information that people already have in storage |
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Schema |
A preexisting mental concept or framework that helps people to organize and interpret information |
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Script |
A schema for an event often containing information about physical features and people |
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Connectionism |
Also called parallel distributed processing the theory that memory is stored throughout the brain in connections among neurons several of which may work to gather to process a single memory |
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Retrieval |
The memory that occurs when I formation that was retained in memory comes out of storage. |
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Serial potion effect |
The tendency to recall the items at the beginning and end of a list more readily than those in the middle |
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Autobiographical memory |
A special firm of episodic memory consisting of a person's recollections of his or her life experiences |
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Flashbulb memory |
The memory of emotionally significant event sth at people of the recall with more accuracy and vivid imagery than everyday events |
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Motivated forgetting |
Forgetting that occurs when something is so painful of anxiety laden that remembering it is intolerable |
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Interference theory |
The theory that people forget not because memories are lost from storage because memories other information gets in the way |
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Proactive interface |
Situation in which material that was interested earlier disrupts the recall of material that was learned later |
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Retroactive interference |
Situatiation in which material that was learned lager disrupts the retrieval of info that was learned earlier |
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Decay theory |
Theory stating that when we learn something new a memory traces forms but over time this trace suggests that the passage of time always increasing forgetting |
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Tip of the tongue phenomenon |
A type of effort full retrieval that occurs when we are confident that we know something but can't quite pull it out of memory |
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Retrospective memory |
Remembering information from the past |
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Prospective memory |
Remembering information about dung something in the future includes for intentions |
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Amenisa |
Loss of memory |
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Anterograde amnesia |
A memory disorder that affects the retention of new information and events |
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Retrograde amnesia |
Memory loss I'm for a segment of the past but no for new events |
